{"id":26818,"date":"2014-02-20T19:52:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26818"},"modified":"2014-02-20T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:52:42","slug":"quote-malcolm-x-education-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26818","title":{"rendered":"QUOTE:  Malcolm X &#8220;Education is the passport&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2014\/02\/20\/quote-malcolm-x-education-passport\/malcolmx-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26821\" alt=\"MalcolmX\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MalcolmX1.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MalcolmX1.jpg 472w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MalcolmX1-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MalcolmX1-100x74.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Malcolm X<\/p>\n<p><em>* Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925. \u00a0On February 21, 1965, he was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan&#8217;s Audubon Ballroom when a man who was seated in the front row of the 400-person audience rushed forward and shot him. \u00a0Then two other men charged the stage and shot Malcolm X several times. \u00a0He was pronounced dead at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital at 3:30 pm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Public viewing was held at Harlem&#8217;s Unity Funeral Home from February 23 through February 26. \u00a0Estimates of the number of mourners attending varied from 14,000 to 30,000. \u00a0The funeral was held on February 27 at the Faith Temple of the Church of God in Christ in Harlem. \u00a0A local television station broadcast the funeral live. \u00a0Actor and activist Ossie Davis delivered the eulogy, where he described Malcolm X as &#8220;our shining black prince.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=a7da2319-1f59-4df8-ad8e-f2d2938914fc\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2020179,103804,124715430,124718155,678,34961255,124715451,124715115,124715431,296199],"tags":[77809719,124716530,61332,15304,124718158,13611479,93470272,96193,16128398,72545,124716532,124716531,124716112,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26826,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818\/revisions\/26826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}