A $20 million state grant will give a major boost to the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation’s efforts to preserve the slain civil rights leader’s legacy and offer programming at his birth site in North Omaha.
The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation building at 3448 Evans St.
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The Malcolm X Birthsite, 3448 Pinkney St., marks the place where Malcolm X first lived with his family. A year later, the family moved to Milwaukee. The Omaha site is on the National Register of Historic Places and the Nebraska list of heritage sites. The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation created a plaza and an educational memorial where the family home stood. The State of Nebraska erected an official marker on the site.
A Juneteenth chalk design is drawn on a sidewalk during the 2021 Omaha Freedom Festival in North Omaha. This year’s Freedom Festival is scheduled for noon to midnight Saturday on the grounds of the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation.
Philana Blakely, acting program manager for the Department of Correctional Services, and Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha pack up copies of the Autobiography of Malcolm X to be distributed to prison libraries. The books were donated by the Malcolm X Foundation.
Photos: Malcolm X through the years
1963 PHOTO: Malcolm X used fiery oratory to win thousands of followers for himself and the Nation of Islam. He didn't overtly encourage violence but urged his followers to protect themselves "by any means necessary" from physical attacks due to racism.
1963 PHOTO: Civil rights leader Malcolm X speaks to reporters in Washington, D.C.
1964 PHOTO: World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, right, appears with Malcolm X in New York.
1964 PHOTO: Malcolm X speaking to about 400 people at Omaha's Civic Auditorium Assembly Hall on June 30. Malcolm X, a native Omahan, was brought to town by the Citizen's Coordinating Committee for Civil Liberties.
1971 PHOTO: A portrait of Malcolm X was erected by students attending a rally in observance of the Omaha native at 3448 Pinkney St. The painting was done by Linda Phillips, a 17-year-old Burke High student.
1972 PHOTO: Malcolm X Week ended with a parade on North 24th Street and more than 1,000 people attending a rally in Adams Park.
1973 PHOTO: A parade in observance of Malcolm X's birthday at 24th and Paul Streets.
1992 PHOTO: Before the late Rowena Moore founded the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation in 1971, she opposed discrimination at Omaha meatpacking plants as a labor leader, leading to the hiring of hundreds of Black women who received a pathway to America's blue-collar middle class. Through the foundation, Moore, whose family once lived in the same house as Malcolm X's family, hoped to create an educational and cultural institution for "everyone."
1999 PHOTO: Attallah Shabazz, the eldest daughter of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, visits his birth site while in Omaha to help promote plans to develop the 12-acre tract in his honor.
2002 PHOTO: A historical marker recognized where Malcolm X's family home once stood.
2003 PHOTO: Omaha City Council member Frank Brown and Alexandria Warren, 11, pull a rope to unveil the Malcolm X Avenue street sign at 34th and Bedford Avenues in May 2003. The site is near the birthplace of civil rights advocate Malcolm Little, who later changed his name to Malcolm X.
2008 PHOTO: Then-State Sen. Ernie Chambers poses in his office with portraits of Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass. Chambers, the main speaker at the inaugural Malcolm X Day rally in 1971, said: "Malcolm X was a man of 'rare commodity.' I've always admired him."
2017 PHOTO: The Malcolm X Birthsite, 3448 Pinkney St., marks the place where Malcolm X first lived with his family. A year later, the family moved to Milwaukee. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places and the Nebraska list of heritage sites. The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation created a plaza and an educational memorial where the family home stood. The State of Nebraska erected an official marker on the site.
2017 PHOTO: A portrait of Malcom X, painted on the side of a shipping container, appears to watch the work going on in the community garden at the site of the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation. Here, HDR employees help build the garden.
2017 PHOTO: The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation center.
2020 PHOTO: Larry Duncan speaks during a rally at the Malcolm X Memorial site in Omaha.
People vote at the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation in Omaha on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
2020 PHOTO: People vote at the Malcolm X Memorial visitors center in Omaha on Nov. 3.
