Malcolm Little was born May
19, 1925, in
Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of seven children of
Grenada-born Louise Helen Little (née Norton) and
Georgia-born Earl Little. Earl was an outspoken
Baptist lay speaker, admirer of
Pan-African activist
Marcus Garvey, and local leader of the
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) who inculcated self-reliance and
black pride in his children Malcolm
X later said that violence by whites killed three of his father's brothers.
Because of
Ku Klux Klan threats—Earl's UNIA activities were "spreading trouble"
[the family relocated in 1926 to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and shortly thereafter to
Lansing, Michigan, where the family was frequently harassed by the
Black Legion, a white
racist group. When the family home burned in 1929, Earl accused the Black Legion.
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