Malcolm X - 5/19/1925 - 2/21/1965

(This speech by Malcolm X is a part of Black History in America. It is important to learn about the evolution of the thinking of Malcolm.) Imam Benjamin Karim edited this speech and provided the following note: The speech was delivered before Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and accepted true Islam – so his…

You have to have a knowledge of history no matter what you are going to do; anything that you undertake you have to have a knowledge of history in order to be successful in it. The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.