Who killed Malcolm X? The civil rights icon was assassinated in New York six decades ago today, but questions about his death ...

But after his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, just three years after his trip to Atlanta, Malcolm X transformed his worldview, rejected the racially divisive Nation of Islam and changed his name to El ...

In February 1965, the BBC reported from the funeral of the black nationalist leader in Harlem, New York, as thousands of people queued to pay their last respects.

In 1958 Malcolm married Betty X, and soon after they began a family. Several trips to the Middle East and Africa, including a pilgrimage to Mecca, broadened Malcolm's perspective; while he ...

But Malcolm X became disillusioned with the Nation of Islam and his separation from the group after a trip to Mecca drew animosity from members and leadership, Garrow said. Malcolm X is often ...

On his release in 1952, Malcolm X travelled across the US spreading its ... After leaving, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and embraced Sunni Islam, adopting the name el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.