Betty Shabazz was a stellar college student, housewife and mother to six girls and devoted wife to Malcolm X.
The widow of Malcolm X, was born Betty Dean Sanders was born May 28, 1934 in Detroit Michigan and she died June 23, 1997 in New York, she was a Civil Rights Advocate, Educator and Nurse.
After she graduated from high school, Sanders left her foster parents’ home in Detroit to study at the Tuskegee University a historically black college in Alabama, She intended to earn a degree in education and become a teacher. Sanders’ studies suffered as a result of her growing frustration. She decided to change her field of study from education to nursing and attend Brooklyn State College School of Nursing in 1953.
Betty Shabazz moved to New York City to become a nurse because she was unhappy with the racism in the south of Alabama. She met Malcolm X in 1956 and joined the Nation of Islam; they married January 14, 1958. She too, left the…
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