Malcolm Little, regularly called Malcolm “X”, was a well known Civil Rights Activist. Malcolm was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Earl Little, was a big target for the Ku Klux Klan, he was killed when Malcolm was six, by a streetcar that ran him over, and nearly cut him in half. Malcolm was a troubled child that left him to drugs and picking up prostitutes in his later teens. He eventually went to prison when he was only twenty years old. Prison was his turning point. He wasn’t very educated when he went to prison, so he copied every word out of the dictionary to learn them. He opposed the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. King was for peaceful, non-violent, protests, while Malcolm was for the “if they attack you first you
