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I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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