The Battle of Baltimore. On June 18,1812, the United States declared war on England, then the greatest power on earth, to preserve Free Trade and Sailors' Rights.. The British, while at war with France, had interfered with our trade and had boarded American ships, pressing our sailors into service on their ships.
In 1963 Malcolm X began a collaboration with Alex Haley on his life story, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He told Haley, If I'm alive when this book comes out, it will be a miracle.. Haley completed and published it some months after the assassination.
Malcolm X was murdered at the age of 39 as he addressed a meeting of his Organization of Afro-American Unity Feb. 19, 1965, at the Theresa Hotel in Harlem, New York City. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925, his parents, Earl and Louise Little, had been organizers for Marcus Garveyâs Universal Negro Improvement Association in Canada, Nebraska and Michigan where the elder Little was murdered.