Source: Speaks Beliefs

MALCOLM LITTLE
Great student
Smart young man
Dose of truth
Changes plans
“I’d like to be a lawyer”
(mr. ostrowski)
“Be realistic boy
About being a nigger”
Changes inside
Doubts form a sinner

DETROIT RED
Hustler
Drug Dealer
Head bright red
No natural hair
Conk instead
Self Hate
Thief
Justice awaits
Larceny charges
Behind Charleston’s Gates
Introduction to Allah
Through Elijah Muhammad
Healing starts
Hustler departs

MALCOLM X
Little no more
Rejection of slave name
Militant Mind
With bitter eloquence
Begins to roar
“By any means necessary!”
The movement grows
He sacrificed his life
For future foe
Actions of Elijah Muhammad
Begin to vary
The Nation of Islam
No longer home
They fear his power
A forced dethrone
Mecca pilgrimage
Beliefs
Views
In disarray
Next to blue eyes
Blonde hair
He did pray

EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ
Organization of Afro-American Unity
Practiced dutifully
What the Nation only preached
Yet failed to reach
Black Nationalism
No longer separation
Ultimate goal
Genuine White-Black unity
Peaceful association
He must be stopped!!
An Enemy of the Nation
FBI watched
With realization
Of his coming last breath
He continues to speak
Without fear of death
Audubon Ballroom
Evil spirits enter
A peaceful man’s life
Ends
Too soon…

LEGACY
He was the Yin
To Martin’s Yang
Two brothers needed
To push for equality gains
Evolution
Of a fallen soldier
Every moment
Shaped a man
Dedicated to lifting
His fellow Black man

Remember him…

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