Betty Shabazz: A brave widow,loving mother and advocate of the oppressed.
Betty "Bahiya" Shabazz was a social activist, a civil rights advocate, and the wife of slain civil rights activist Malcolm X, like her husband she was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment. She was born Betty Dean Sanders on May 28, 1936. While her place of birth is uncertain, she was raised in Detroit. Her father Shelmam Sandlin and mother Ollie Mae Sanders were unwed teenagers. They were abusive to Betty, so at the age of 12, she was fostered by African American couple Lorenzo and Helen Mall
