Life,+Assassination+and+Legacy+of+Malcolm+X+1965

Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska with the name Malcolm Little. He was one of eight children in his family. In 1929 Malcolm and his family moved to East Lansing, Michigan, where racism was a big factor. When they first moved there white racists tried burning down there house and hurting them. A couple years later during the Great Depression, Earl, Malcolms father was run down by a trolly car and killed. Because of the Great Depression, Louise, Malcolms mom was having trouble feeding and taking care of all eight children. All of the children were placed in foster homes including Malcolm. He was sent to a juvenile detention home because of a minor act of mischief. When he got out he moved in with his sister in Boston. Living in the ghetto of Boston Malcolm took on many weird jobs because he wasnt attending school anymore.



Malcolm was arrested at age 20 in 1946 for a burglery and was sentenced for 10 years in jail. While in prison he began to read a lot of books and other types of stuff like history and philosophy and aslo religion. He was released from prison in 1952. He stuck with his name Malcolm Little until after he got out of jail and committed to the Nation of Islam and thats when he took the name Malcolm X. After getting out of jail his life really had turned around, he was now an elequent speaker. Malcolm was very extremem when talking about the hate for whites. In the early 1960's, his position took him into a big conflict with a man named Muhammad. Early in 1965 Malcolms house was firebombed and then a week later on February 21 at a rally at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem during a speech he was assassinated at the age of 39. He had known he would be assassinated by black muslims. but when the men of the shooting were convicted, they were members of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm was married with four kids at the time he was killed and his funeral was filled with many african american followers and speakers and his words will never be forgotten.