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The Life of Malcolm X

The Life of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha Nebraska. His real name was Malcolm Little. Louis Norton Little, his mother, was a housewife occupied with eight children. Earl Little, his father, was a Baptist minister who supported the Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Because of Earl’s civil rights activism, death threats were given by the white supremacist organization the Black Legion. Forcing the family to move twice before Malcolm’s fourth birthday. They tried very hard to stay away from the legion, but in 1929 their house in Lansing, Michigan was burned to the ground. Two years later Earl Little’s Body was found mutilated on the town’s trolley tracks. The police said both were accidents, but the Little family knew that the Black Legion was responsible. Several years after the death of Earl Little, his wife Louis Little had an emotional breakdown and was placed in a mental institution. Malcolm and the seven other children were placed in foster homes and orphanages.

When Malcolm was in junior high, he was a smart and focused student, he gradated at the top of his class. He had a dream of being a lawyer, but he lost interest in school and dropped out when a favorite teacher told him that trying to be a lawyer was “no realistic goal for a nigger”. He moved to Boston working at different jobs. Then he traveled to Harlem where he committed petty crimes. By 1942 Malcolm was organizing narcotic, prostitution and gambling rings.

In 1946 Malcolm moved back to Boston. There he was arrested and convicted on burglary charges. In his seven-year prison sentence, he furthered his education. Malcolm’s brother Reginald visited to talk about the Muslim religious organization the Nation of Islam. Malcolm then started to study the teachings of Elijah Muhammad the Leader of the Nation of Islam. When Malcolm got paroled in 1952 he was a devoted follower. He changed his last name from “Little” to “X”; saying that “little” was a slave name and “X” was a lost tribal name.

Malcolm was later appointed a minister and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He also made new mosques in Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York. He also used newspaper columns, radio, and television to get the Nation of Islam’s message across the United States. From 1952 to 1963 Malcolm was...

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