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BLACK LEADER MALCOM X ASSASSINATED
February 21st, 1965

Malcolm X, who broke with the Black Muslims last year, was shot dead at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom as he addressed a Sunday afternoon audience on the need for blacks and whites to coexist peacefully.