September 21 – Meets with Fidel Castro at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
December – Malcolm’s daughter, Qubilah, is born.
1961
March 24 – Malcolm debates Walter Carrington of the NAACP at Harvard Law School.
May 13 – Malcolm is the speaker at the Nation of Islam Freedom Rally in Manhattan.
1962
May 20 - Malcolm speaks at a rally held at the Park Manor Auditorium.
Malcolm learns that Elijah Muhammad is an adulterer who has children with three former secretaries.
July - Malcolm’s third daughter, Llyasah, is born.
1963
February 13 – Serves as leader of a Muslim demonstration in Times Square.
May – James Baldwin interviews Malcolm on television.
June – Kenneth Clark interviews Malcolm on television.
August 28 – Malcolm attends the March on Washington as an observer. He is critical of the event stating that he does not understand why blacks are excited about the demonstration since it is “run by whites in front of a statue of a president who has been dead for a hundred years and who didn’t like us when he was alive.”
August 10 – Speaks in Harlem at Unity rally.
October 22 – Speaks at Wayne state University in Detroit.
December 1 – After John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Malcolm makes his controversial speech about the “chickens coming home to roost” at a Nation of Islam rally held in New York.
December 4 – Because of Malcolm’s statement about the assassination of Kennedy, Elijah Muhammad restricts him from speaking for ninety days.
1964
January – Begins collaboration with Alex Haley on his autobiography.
March 26 – Meets Martin Luther King after King’s news conference.
March – Malcolm splits with the Nation of Islam and forms the Muslim Mosque, Inc.
April – Malcolm travels to Mecca and throughout Africa under the name, Malik El-Shabazz. While in Mecca, he changes his opinion about white people after he experiences the unity of the races.
June 28 – Forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) to help in the civil rights struggle.
July – Malcolm returns to Africa, meets with African leaders, and attends the second African Summit Conference in Cairo, Egypt.
December – Malcolm’s daughter, Amiliah, is born.
1965
February 14 – Malcolm’s house is firebombed.
February 18 – Speaks at Columbia University.
February 21 – While speaking at a OAAU rally in the Audubon Ballroom at 3:10 p.m., Malcolm is shot several times. Malcolm is pronounced dead upon arrival at the Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
February 27 – Funeral services begin for Malcolm and the eulogy is given by actor and playwright, Ossie Davis.
Malcolm’s twin daughters, Malaak and Malikah, are born.
