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Date of Birth
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) was born May,19th 1925 in Omaha Nebraska. His Mother was a white lady while his Father was a Black Pastor. This was problem because interracial relationships were frowned upon during this time. His father was killed by the KKK and then his family relocated to NYC when he ended up in foster homes due to his mom going to the hospital after her husbands death. -
Moving On
December: The Littles leave Omaha and move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
Malcolms fathers death
September 28: Louise has a premonition about her husband and asks him not to leave the house. Later that night, Earl Little is killed in what police term a streetcar accident, but Malcolm later says that the Ku Klux Klan was behind it. After Earl's death, his wife and children struggle to make ends meet and must apply for public assistance. -
Teen child hood
By the 1930s the nation had fallen into the Great Depression, a decade-long period of great economic hardship. Work was scarce, and Malcolm's family struggled. For a time his mother and her eight children lived on public welfare. When his mother became mentally ill, Malcolm was sent to a foster home. His mother remained in a mental institution for about twenty-six years. At thirteen Malcolm was charged with delinquency. He dropped out of school at the age of fifteen and never went back -
Converting to Islam
Malcolm is released on parole, spends one night with Ella Collins, then goes to Detroit to live with his brother Wilfred. He quickly joins the Nation of Islam and attends meetings at Detroit's Temple No. 1, one of the four temples that the Nation operates at the time. Malcolm rejects the surname "Little" as a slave name given to his family by white oppressors, and he becomes known as "Malcolm X." -
Assassination
Malcolm X is assassinated while speaking at an OAAU rally in Harlem; three members of the Nation of Islam are later convicted despite the fact that the assailant apprehended at the scene Talmadge Hayer insisted that his two co-defendants are innocent.
