Malcolm X was born as Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska . His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who is one of the best-known African leaders in the Western Hemisphere. Malcolm first got a glimpse of black oppression at a very young age when his father's mutilated body was found lying across the town's trolley tracks in Lansing, Michigan, where they were currently staying due to white oppression . His m…
