Malcolm X
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Updated: 10 Oct 2022
1925-1965
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Created byMALCOLM MITCHELL
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Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little to Earl Little and his wife Louise Helen Little (née Norton) at Omaha Nebraska. He was the fourth of the couple’s seven children. Malcolm’s father was a Baptist lay speaker and member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).The family moved to Milwaukee to escape threats by the Ku Klux Klan.The family moved to Milwaukee to escape threats by the Ku Klux Klan.The family home was set alight. Malcolm’s father, Earl Little believed it to be an arson attack by the Black Legion.Earl Little died in a streetcar accident. Malcolm’s mother believed that her husband’s death was not an accident. She believed he had been murdered by the Black Legion.Earl Little was killed in what was said to have been a streetcar accident, but was later alleged to be murder at the hands of the white supremacist group. He was supposedly struck in the back of the head with a hammer and thrown onto the tracks of a streetcar at night, and the streetcar ran him over. His death was passed off as a suicide by the coroners.Malcolm’s mother, Helen Little, became pregnant. When the father found out about the pregnancy he vanished from her life.Malcolm’s mother suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to Kalamazoo Psychiatric hospital. Her children were separated and sent to foster homes.Malcolm attended West Junior High School in Lansing, Michigan.Malcolm attended West Junior High School in Lansing, Michigan.
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