Malcolm X (b. Malcolm Little) (1925–65) African-American activist; born in Omaha, Nebr. Malcolm claimed his father, a minister and follower ofMarcus Garvey,was murdered by racists in Lansing, Mich. (1931) (but at least one researcher claims his father died accidentally). Moving to Boston...
a local minister and activist. Malcolm later narrates that his family's home was burned down and his father was murdered when he was four or five, thrown in front of a train after suffering a skull injury. The case was falsely recorded as a suicide and his family received no compensation...
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In 1931 Earl Little waskilled, probably murdered by white terrorists because of hispolitical and social activism.His father's death had a disastrous effect on Malcolm and hisfamily. His mother suffered a nervous breakdown, and thewelfare department took the eight little children away fromher. ...
He was victimized by violence. His father was murdered, probably by the Klan, which had earlier burned down the family house. His mother was unable to support her children, and Malcolm was parceled out to a foster home. He was the brightest student in his classes but was steered away fro...
where in 1931 Malcolm's father was brutally murdered by the Black Legion, a white supremacist group. When the life insurance policy he had taken out was not paid (the company maintained the death was suicide because the body had been found on railway tracks), the family slid into dire pove...
— Malcolm X “It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.”— February 19, 1965 (2 days before he was murdered by Nation of Islam followers) — Malcolm X “Without education,...
In was in Lansing, when Malcolm was six years old, that Earl was murdered. Louise struggled, unsuccessfully, to hold her family together, and it was during these years that Malcolm gravitated to a life of hustling on the streets. In 1946 Malcolm was arrested on charges of burglary and ...
Malcolm X's early life was marked by tragedy when his father, a Baptist minister, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan when he was only six years old. His mother, who suffered from mental illness, was eventually institutionalized, and Malcolm and his siblings were separated and placed in foster...
Although no one was convicted of the crime it was generally believed that Little had been murdered by the Black Legionnaires. Malcolm's mother never recovered from her husband's death and in 1937 was sent to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo, where she stayed for the next twenty-six ...