![]() ![]() ![]() Thousands attended his funeral in Harlem. A few months before his fortieth birthday, three men assassinated Malcolm at a public event the men convicted of the crime were associated with the Nation of Islam. After his expulsion from the group, he travelled to Mecca and throughout Africa, and he began speaking more on a potential brotherhood between races and the Pan Africanism movement. Always a controversial figure, he was finally expelled from the Nation after accusations of misconduct. Upon his release in 1952, he became a high-profile minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam for the next twelve years. While in prison, he began to study history and converted to the Nation of Islam through the influence of his siblings. After making ends meet through a variety of jobs and criminal activities, Malcolm went to prison for burglary in 1946. ![]() Malcolm moved to Boston and then New York as a teenager in 1929, where he fell in love with the culture and lifestyle of the urban ghettoes. This led to racial violence that eventually resulted in Earl’s death and the scattering of the Little family. His father, Earl Little, had strong views on race relations that drew the ire of conservative whites. Malcolm X was born to a rural family in Omaha, Nebraska. ![]()
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