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7. Earl was a Baptist minister and also worked for Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a pan-African movement in the 1920s
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6. Malcolm’s mother was half white and was so light she could have passed for a white person.
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Birth
Malcolm X was born in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska -
Malcolm X was born in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska
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His father died when he was young and it is possible that foul play was the cause of his death.
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Malcolms Xs mom was institutionalized when he was young.
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Early Life
Malcolm X had a hard early life with his family house being burned down and being run out of town. -
In October 1938, 13-year-old Malcolm was sent to a foster home, which was soon followed by a detention home.
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Malcolm befriended a hustler named “Shorty” Jarvis, who also happened to come from Lansing
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.Finally on February, 21 1965 the Nation of Islam made good on their threats when Malcolm X was giving a speech in New York he was shot to death by three members of the Nation of Islam