In 2004 and 2007, the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission proposed his induction but chose someone else.
Former Nation Of Islam leader and civil rights activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz poses for a portrait on February 16, 1965, in Rochester, New York.
Dyamund Lucas of Omaha is also surprised it took this long, but"I feel like it shows that our community is evolving.""The Klan showed up at his front door looking for his father," said JoAnna LeFlore Ejike, executive director of the"They were looking for him, because he was 'stirring up trouble' in the so-called community. But the trouble was already there, you see, because in 1919 there was a lynching of Will Brown," LeFlore Ejike said.
Malcolm X publicly criticized Martin Luther King Jr., arguing his teachings rendered Black people defenseless. Malcolm X made a significant contribution to the Nation of Islam, growing its membership from just a few hundred members to about 30,000. Louise Pound was the first female president of the Modern Language Association, commonly referred to as MLA, and taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln."I never felt like Nebraska particularly shaped him , since he left as a young person. I believe he was around a year-and-a-half-old when they left, for reasons that are awful," Crook said.
Chairman of the commission at that time, Ron Hull, cemented the vote. He argued Malcolm X turned his life around. Hull passed away in 2023, at 92. Hull had worked at Nebraska Public Media for nearly 70 years.
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