Malcolm and Betty Shabazz and their children stayed with heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay at his Miami training camp while Malcolm was suspended from the Nation of Islam. The visit shows how personal relationships and Black public figures formed a support network during a period of organizational rupture. Clay later became Muhammad Ali; the friendship continued through a consequential transition in both men’s public lives.
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What did the name Omowale mean in the Ibadan welcome described by Malcolm?
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Nigerian Muslim students gave Malcolm the Yoruba name Omowale, commonly rendered as “the child has come home.”
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