Day 21: Celebrating 29-Days Of Black History In Brooklyn
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by On Day 21 of Black History Month we recognize Dr. Betty Shabazz.
On the evening of February 21, 1965, Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, sat in the audience with her four daughters at the Audubon Ballroom. Her beloved husband, Malcolm X (el Hajj Malik el Shabazz), began to speak at a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
A commotion erupted in the crowd of about 400. As soon as she heard gunshots, Shabazz grabbed her girls, threw them to the ground, then covered them with her body. Once the bullets had stopped flying, Shabazz scrambled to Malcolm’s side on stage. She tried desperately to administer CPR to his bullet riddled body. Malcolm, 39 years old, was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
At the funeral, actor and activist, Ossie Davis, called Minister Malcolm, “our shinning black prince.” The prince had sacrificed his life for the high ideals of truth, justice, and equality. But he had no monetary inheritance to leave his family. Shabazz had become a single black female with six mouths to feed.
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Shabazz, who never remarried, returned to school. She finished her undergraduate at Jersey City State College and then went on to receive a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Shabazz taught at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, worked as College administrator and fund-raiser, and traveled extensively lecturing on civil rights and race. With all she endured and through all of her struggles, Dr. Betty Shabazz was known to say, “find the good and celebrate it.”
Listen to Betty Shabazz speak after the assassination of husband Malcolm X here:
