The Life of Malcolm X
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Earl Little and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Earl and Louise Norton Little are anti racist activists at the precise moment when the Ku Klux Klan is making a massive resurgence in the United States. By 1925, in August of 1925, 40,000 clansmen march in Washington, D.C. And what happens to him? Well, Earl is going to be murdered by white supremacist in Lansing, Michigan. He sort of leaves to go get some money for some chickens he sold to someone goes to town and is killed. Really that's going to set Malcolm up for the next six years, the fracturing of Malcolm X's family.
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