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In 1958 Malcolm married Betty X, and soon after they began a family, several trips to the Middle East and Africa, including a pilgrimage to Mecca, broadened Malcolm's perspective; while he continued to denounce racism in America, Malcolm's eyes were opened to the possibility of unity with white Muslims he met overseas. At the same time, rifts had opened between him and Elijah Muhammad, whose repeated adulteries had disillusioned Malcolm. Then when, despite Elijah Muhammad's warning against it, he termed President Kennedy's 1963 assassination "a case of chickens coming home to roost," he was silenced by the Nation of Islam for 90 days. Shortly thereafter Malcolm formed his own religious organization, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated. Even as his international profile increased, Malcolm began receiving death threats at home, and in February 1965 his house was firebombed. He was assassinated one week later in Harlem by members of the Nation of Islam.

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