Los Angeles officials honored the late civil rights leader Malcolm X
Los Angeles officials honored the late civil rights leader Malcolm X
Los Angeles City Council members, community leaders, activists and residents gathered over the weekend in Leimert Park to honor civil rights leader Malcolm X on what would have been his 100th birthday.
L.A. officials unveiled street signs dedicated to Malcolm X on the corner of Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards on Saturday, followed by the 33rd Malcolm X Festival with the theme “Human Rights, By Any Means Necessary.”
City Councilmember Heather Hutt, who led the effort to establish a permanent recognition of Malcolm X’s impact, said, “He was a truth-teller, unafraid to speak uncomfortable truths and his words (ignited) the Black power movement. His dedication to human rights transcends borders, connecting the American struggle to the global movements for social justice.”
Malcolm X was not from L.A., but he came to the city many times. In 1957 he founded Temple No. 27 — also known as Mosque No. 27 — in South Central L.A., and in 1962 he came to L.A. after a police raid on Temple No. 27. Several members of Nation of Islam were shot by LAPD officers, and Ronald Stokes, an official at the temple, was killed.
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