Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little on May 19th, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, US, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans, while his detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. Malcolm has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.