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Biography - Malcolm X Shabazz Brother

Born Malcolm Little May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, his mother, Louisa Little, was a housewife and mother of eight children. Earl Little, his father, was a supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm father outspoken Baptist minister gave speeches around the corner to promote the need for blacks to move "Back to Africa", which was ideal main Garvey.

Little activism attracted unfavorable attention from white supremacist organization called the Black Legion, an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan very racist. Malcolm's family had to move twice before he was four, then its inception at the beginning and let him know racism, politics and worries about the morbid life of his parents.

In 1929 their Lansing, Michigan Home was burned, and two years later, Earl Little was killed. It was thought that two men, members of the Black Legion, had found in a local bar, hit him on the back of the head and killed him by setting the trolley tracks in front of a tram. Little had two life insurance policies on himself, but authorities concluded that his death was a suicide. Another time, the Ku Klux Klan members went to their house, and Louise Little was to seize a shotgun and point it at them to make them go away. Malcolm had tried a while to grasp the shotgun itself. It is not the first time he was required to use a firearm on his enemies.

Malcolm's mother has suffered a major emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband. She was then committed to a mental institution, and has been in and out of these institutions for 26 years. Her children have been sent to a variety of foster homes and orphanages. Malcolm, a particularly bright "middle" children, had been the only one for whom his family had bought eyeglasses and sunglasses looks famous Malcolm X were born.

Malcolm was a great student and a high score on all of its tests, graduated from junior high school with honors. However, a favorite teacher of his wife destroyed his dreams of becoming a lawyer, saying he was not a goal "unrealistic for a nigger". After that, Malcolm dropped out, moving to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was working odd jobs like polishing shoes. Tired of low pay, jobs unrealistic dull, he went to Harlem, New York - where he began his life in the infamous black underworld of petty crime. It was the management of various narcotics, prostitution and gambling in 1942, having begun life as a sordid underground gay prostitute and pimp just to save his life. Once he burst into a toy store, stealing only a watch.

Malcolm has formed a partnership with another man, "Shorty" Jarvis. They settled in Boston, and in 1946 they were arrested and convicted of burglary. Malcolm was sentenced to ten years in prison but was paroled after serving seven years. A romantic story is made of how he had robbed a bank using a gun loaded with blanks, and that he had done for the love of a beautiful white woman, just to get coverage media.

In fact, he used his time in prison to continue his studies, reading books in the prison library. One of these books was the Koran, the holy book of Islam, Malcolm's brother Reginald visit him in prison and help them convert to Islam. Reginald Little belonged to the Nation of Islam - and he was very enthusiastic about it.

Elijah Muhammad was the leader of Nation of Islam that originally attracted the attention of Malcolm. Muhammad's teachings were that white people were deliberately keeping people in black American political, economic and social justice and success. The Nation of Islam has been fighting for a section of the country to become black America, separate from the United States controlled by whites. Malcolm decided.