11 March : Malcolm X then known as Malcolm Little arrested for burglary

This was the arrest that sent Malcolm Little to jail where he found Islam and became Malcolm ‘X’. Inexorably, therefore, this is the arrest that leads to his assassination. Having abandoned the Nation of Islam in 1964, Malcolm X came to be seen by many within the group as an enemy, and indeed some commentators have gone so far as to suggest that Farrakhan, once his protégé and later his successor as the head of the group may have been complicit in his killing... Read the full Assassination of Malcolm X Crime File