Malcolm X

Last Friday, June 6th, was the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Occurring just two months after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., his death in the midst of a momentous presidential campaign signaled to many the end of a hopeful era. In less than four years, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, King, and the younger Kennedy had all been slain, and these violent killings laid the foundation for tumult at the summer's Democratic Convention in Chicago, the start of a massive anti-Vietnam War movement, and broader radical forces in the United States fed by the rhetoric of the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement, the Weathermen, the Young Lords, and other revolutionary groups.