Malcolm X was an active and controversial leader in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. His radical ideas and methods challenged other leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm did not have a stable childhood. His family of ten moved around the country frequently and was always subjected to acts of discrimination. His father Earl Little was a Baptist minister who was very involved in the fight for equality. Due to this early activism, the Little family received many death threats from the Black Legion, a secret vigilante terrorist group and a white supremacist organization. When the family moved to Michigan, their house was burnt down and Earl was murdered a couple of years later. Both cases were ruled as an accident but it set the stage for
