{"id":112552,"date":"2023-08-26T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=112552"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:45:52","slug":"malcolm-x-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/malcolm-x-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"How Police Brutality Spurred Malcolm X&#8217;s Activism Into Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did Malcolm X become a civil rights activist? Who was Johnson Hinton, and what did he have to do with it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1957, New York City police officers severely beat up a Black Muslim man named Johnson Hinton. That incident eventually pushed the Nation of Islam\u2014and Malcolm X\u2014into the spotlight of America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/black-power-and-civil-rights-movement\/\">civil rights movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to learn about the launch of Malcolm X&#8217;s activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-malcolm-x-s-activism\">Malcolm X&#8217;s Activism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Malcolm X&#8217;s activism in the civil rights movement started when he led a resistance movement against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/shooting-of-terence-crutcher\/\">police brutality<\/a>. In 1957, a Black Muslim man named Johnson Hinton had been attacked by New York City police and taken into custody. Accompanied by many members of the Fruit of Islam, Malcolm X demanded that Hinton be released for medical care. Hinton was finally taken to the hospital by ambulance. The Black Muslims followed and were joined by other Black people who were incensed by police brutality and excited by the possibility of organizing against it. Hinton had to have a steel plate put in his skull. He sued the city, winning over $70,000. The debacle got a lot of publicity, making the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/malcolm-x-and-the-nation-of-islam\/\">Nation of Islam<\/a> a household topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The sum awarded to Hinton <a href=\"https:\/\/case-law.vlex.com\/vid\/hinton-v-city-of-885499626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in 1961<\/a> was the greatest sum paid for police brutality in New York City history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minneapolisfed.org\/about-us\/monetary-policy\/inflation-calculator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worth over $760,000 dollars in 2023<\/a>. Hinton\u2019s case wasn\u2019t the only case of police brutality that Malcolm X or the Nation of Islam fought against: According to experts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/weekly\/how-nation-islam-shaped-struggle-against-police-brutality-and-carceral-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Nation of Islam influenced the battle against anti-Black police brutality<\/a> by responding with nonviolent acts of protest. However, Malcolm X eventually concluded that the Nation of Islam wasn\u2019t doing enough and <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/the-death-that-galvanized-malcolm-x-against-police-brutality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched his own campaign against police violence<\/a>. Because Black people are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/report-black-people-are-still-killed-police-higher-rate-groups-rcna17169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more likely to be killed by police<\/a>, the struggle against anti-Black police brutality continues today, such as with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/first-amendment\/article\/1512\/black-lives-matter#:~:text=The%20hashtag%20%23BlackLivesMatter%20became%20firmly%20associated%20with%20a%20movement%20to%20reduce%20police%20violence%20toward%20Black%20people%2C%20with%20its%20usage%20increasing%20dramatically%20on%20social%20media%20after%20a%20Ferguson%20grand%20jury%20decided%20not%20to%20indict%20the%20officer%20involved%20in%20Brown%E2%80%99s%20death.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Black Lives Matter movement<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1959, a documentary about the Nation of Islam called <em>The Hate That Hate Produced<\/em> aired, broadcasting the organization\u2019s radical views to the national stage for the first time\u2014this catapulted Malcolm X to widespread recognition. He began visiting colleges as a much sought-after guest speaker; he also engaged in TV and radio debates to explain why Black separatism was necessary and to fight against accusations that he was inciting violence\u2014in his view, he simply advocated resisting oppression. Because of the increased media attention, the Nation of Islam got more popular\u2014and began to be surveilled by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: <em>The Hate That Hate Produced<\/em> cast the Nation of Islam as <a href=\"https:\/\/ccnmtl.columbia.edu\/projects\/mmt\/mxp\/events\/5138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>reverse racists<\/em><\/a>\u2014a common criticism of pro-Black organizations that says that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclrc.com\/myth-of-reverse-racism#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20%E2%80%98reverse%20racism,untrue%E2%80%9D%20(Blay%2C%202015).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white people are targets of racism<\/a>. Recent studies suggest that overall, <a href=\"https:\/\/now.tufts.edu\/2011\/05\/23\/whites-believe-they-are-victims-racism-more-often-blacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white people think reverse racism is a bigger problem than anti-Black racism<\/a>\u2014an idea that became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2017\/08\/myth-of-reverse-racism\/535689\/\">central to the battle against affirmative action<\/a>, a policy that allowed colleges to take race into account in the admissions process until it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/06\/29\/1181138066\/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struck down<\/a> in 2023. Because they posed a threat to the traditional anti-Black order of things, <em>many <\/em>Black leaders and organizations were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.berkeley.edu\/about\/news\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surveilled by the government<\/a> during the civil rights movement.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malcolm X used his leadership skills to recruit more converts with the aim of uplifting Black people and uniting them against racism<\/strong>. He explains that, initially, many converts to the religion were people who struggled with addiction. The Nation of Islam forbade all drug use, so, when someone wanted to convert, they had to give up drugs\u2014a difficult but health-promoting process. Once they had, they\u2019d seek out drug addicts they\u2019d known in their former lives and help them through the process of getting sober. As the organization grew, it began to recruit traditionally successful Black people, including Christians. The Nation of Islam was successful because it gave Black people a supportive community and proactively helped them through their struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: <em>The New York Times<\/em> reported that the Nation of Islam\u2019s program for rehabilitating addiction was so successful that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1964\/01\/10\/archives\/black-muslims-asked-to-help-treat-addicts-here-claims-of-sect-draw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health professionals and probation officers turned to Malcolm X for advice about breaking addictions<\/a>. One part of the rehabilitation process was to instill in each addicted person a strong sense of Black pride\u2014they believed that Black people struggled with addiction because they couldn\u2019t otherwise cope with living in a world that valorized whiteness and denigrated blackness and that a greater sense of Black pride would help them cope in healthier ways.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Malcolm X become a civil rights activist? Who was Johnson Hinton, and what did he have to do with it? In 1957, New York City police officers severely beat up a Black Muslim man named Johnson Hinton. That incident eventually pushed the Nation of Islam\u2014and Malcolm X\u2014into the spotlight of America&#8217;s civil rights movement. Read more to learn about the launch of Malcolm X&#8217;s activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":112560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,33,24],"tags":[1257],"class_list":["post-112552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-people","category-society","tag-the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Police Brutality Spurred Malcolm X&#039;s Activism Into Action - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malcolm X&#039;s activism in the civil rights movement started when he led a resistance movement against police brutality in 1957. 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