Betty Shabazz, also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was married to Malcolm X.
Betty Shabazz
Betty Shabazz in February 1965, after identifying Malcolm X's body at the New York City Morgue
Shabazz at St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago
The gravesite of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz in Ferncliff Cemetery
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. A posthumous autobiography, on which he collaborated with Alex Haley, was published in 1965.
Malcolm X in March 1964
A Boston police mug shot of Malcolm, following his arrest for larceny (1944)
Muhammad Ali (second row, in dark suit) watches Elijah Muhammad speak, 1964
Malcolm X's only meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., March 26, 1964, during the Senate debates regarding the (eventual) Civil Rights Act of 1964.