LINCOLN, Neb. — After nearly 20 years of campaigning by advocates of recognition of Malcolm X, a revolutionary leader of the international working class, he was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame May 22. His bronze bust, made by Lincoln artist Nathan Murray, above, will be put on display in the Nebraska Capitol here.
In March the Nebraska Legislature voted to make every May 19, the day he was born in Omaha in 1925, Malcolm X Day. Programs will be organized in Nebraska schools to recognize his role in history.
“The recent actions here will have influences broader than Nebraska as the legacy of Malcolm reaches others around the world,” Murray, who teaches at Lux Center for the Arts and Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, told the Militant June 2. “They urge, as Malcolm did, that Black people need see their worth, reaching out to all nationalities and races to use their empowerment to advance humanity.”