Who was the leading african-american known for his fiery oratory, insistence that blacks control the political and economic resources of their communities, and who was assassinated by members of the nation of islam after he formed his own organization of afro-american unity?

The appropriate response is Malcolm X. He was an African-American Muslim clergyman and human rights dissident. To his admirers he was a gutsy backer for the privileges of blacks, a man who arraigned white America in the harshest terms for its wrongdoings against dark Americans; depreciators blamed him for lecturing prejudice and savagery.