Malcolm X's Early Life

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In the box below, write a short summary of Malcolm X's early life, while also detailing how he became a civil rights activist. Make sure to have 5-7 complete sentences and correct grammatical conventions.

Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha Nebraska. When he was a child his father was a baptist minister and his mother stayed home and took care of him and his siblings. When Malcolm was young his father was killed in a streetcar accident. When he was a teenager he went down the wrong path and started to get into trouble. He also dropped out of school in the 8th grade. In 1946 he was arrested for multiple burglaries and put in jail for 10

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