Question

Members of which radical group assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X?

a. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC
b. Southern Christian Leadership Conference or SCLC
c. Congress for Racial Equality or CORE
d. Nation of Islam or Black Muslims

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. Malcolm X was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam.

Step-by-step explanation:

On February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, Malcolm X began speaking at a meeting of the Organization of African American Unity, when he was shot in the chest with a cut-off shotgun. Three assassins shot him 16 times. One of the murderers was captured and beaten by the crowd, but the others managed to escape. Malcolm X was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Columbia University Medical Center.

Talmadge Hayer, a black Muslim also known as Thomas Hagan, was arrested at the time. Witnesses identified two more suspects, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, also members of the Nation of Islam. The city charged against the three men accused in the case, who were convicted.

Answer 2

It was the members of d. Nation of Islam or Black Muslims who assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X. The motives of this assassination are still somewhat unclear.