Both men had reddish hair, so Sanford was called "Chicago Red" after his hometown and Malcolm was known as "Detroit Red". Here were New York City policemen, entering a room from which at least a dozen shots had been heard, and yet not one of them had his gun out! "[179] Four days later, an FBI informant received a tip that "Malcolm X is going to be bumped off. 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He emphasized the "direct connection" between the domestic struggle of African Americans for equal rights with the independence struggles of Third World nations. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 19, 1925; he dropped the "slave name" Little and adopted the initial X (representing an unknown) when he became a member of the Nation of Islam. The clue " City in which Malcolm X was born " was last spotted by us at the New York Times Crossword on October 16 2020 . [133] He told Haley, "If I'm alive when this book comes out, it will be a miracle. His martyrdom, ideas, and speeches contributed to the development of Black nationalist ideology and the Black Power movement and helped to popularize the values of autonomy and independence among African Americans in the 1960s and ’70s. For if you did you would know him. 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