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The
Audubon Ballroom was a theatre and ballroom located in the
Washington Heights neighborhood of
Upper Manhattan, north of
Harlem. It is best-known as the site of
Malcolm X's
assassination on
February 21,
1965.
The Audubon Ballroom was built in 1912 by
film producer William Fox, who later founded the
Fox Film Corporation. Fox hired
Thomas W. Lamb, one of the foremost
American theater architects, as its designer. Among the architectural highlights in the
façade of the Audubon Ballroom are brown foxes between the windows on the second floor, intended to flatter Fox.
During its history, the Audubon Ballroom was used as a
vaudeville house, a
movie theater, and a meeting hall. In 1950, the congregants purchased the building,
After
Malcolm X left the
Nation of Islam in 1964, he founded the
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). The weekly meetings of the OAAU were held at the Audubon Ballroom and it was at one of those meetings, on
February 21,
1965, that Malcolm X was assassinated.
In 1992,
Columbia University began the process of
demolishing the Audubon Ballroom and replacing it with the Audubon Business and Technology Center, a university-related
biotechnology research park that's a
public-private partnership between
Columbia University Medical Center and the New York
state and
city governments.
Historic preservation groups unsuccessfully sued to prevent its demolition, and a group of Columbia students
occupied Hamilton Hall on campus in protest. Eventually, the University reached a compromise with local community groups. Under the agreement, the University restored a portion of the original façade of the Audubon Ballroom and built a museum inside to honor Malcolm X. In 2005 the University announced the opening of the museum, the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.
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