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 assassinated at a speaking engagement in the Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Malcolm X (1925-1965) was shot down by three gunmen during a speech on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in Washinton Heights (Harlem) NY. After founding the Organization of Afro-American Unity, a black nationalism group, he was widely denounced by his former associates at the Nation of Islam.