Charles kenyatta biography
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Charles Sumner Kenyatta, also known as Charles 37X and Charles Morris, organized the Harlem Mau Mau Society and worked as Malcolm X’s bodyguard. Kenyatta was born February 20, 1921, to Ruth Davis and Charles Morris in Boston, Massachusetts.
As a teen, he trained to be a dental technician, but wanted to be a part of show business and joined the Brown Skinned Models show at Seventh Avenue Nightclub in New York City, New York.
In 1942, Morris joined the U.S.
Army and was posted at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, but the segregated South was difficult.
Charles kenyatta biography
In September 1944, he was convicted by a court martial on charges of organizing a mutiny and served six years of hard labor. In 1946, he was discharged from the Army after serving half of his sentence.
Morris met Malcolm X as Charles Morris in Detroit, Michigan where Malcolm X was an assistant minister at the Nation of Islam.
Morris followed Malcolm X to Mosque No. 7 in New York City and joined in the early 1960s where he was renamed Charle