Malcolm X Biography

Malcolm X is born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. The Midwest, during that period, was completely full of discrimination and racial violence. Malcolm X’s father, Earl Little was a Baptist preacher and on one day, he was found dead on the trolley tracks in town after a streetcar ran over him. In spite of the police report that Earl's death was an accident, Malcolm strongly believed that his father was killed by the Black Legion.

Following his father’s death, Malcolm's mother, Louise Little, was in effort to provide sustenance for her eight children on her own. To help his mother, Malcolm started to steal food and candy from neighborhood stores and due to that, Malcolm has been trapped for certain times. As the result, Malcolm has to be removed from her mother’s care to a foster family. Due to severe depression and mental breakdown in raising her children, she was committed to a state mental hospital at Kalamazoo.

After completing his eighth grade, Malcolm moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to live with his sister, Ella. In Boston, Malcolm involved in a metropolitan nightlife. He wears flashy clothes, gambling, drinking, consuming drugs, and dating an older white woman named Sophia. Once he worked as a railway porter but then when he moved to New York, he began to work as a hustler in Harlem. His jobs include running numbers, selling drugs, steering white people to black brothers as well as committing armed robberies.

Malcolm went back to Boston when he realized that his life in Harlem becomes too risky. He then became a house burglar and is finally arrested. In prison, Malcolm converted himself, transforming to the branch of Islam propagated by the Nation of Islam, which has already converted a number of his sibli...

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...cial worker which is to take a good care of the people’s welfare

17. Keep calm, never give up and be persistent!

A frequent rumour among non-Muslims was “Malcolm X is making a pile of money”. (page 296)

Despite the bad rumors that have been spread all around the world, as social worker, Malcolm X was never give up. He used to be patience at all times. As we all know, a social worker will face a lot challenging situation and that’s why it is important for social workers to be patient and keep calm.

CONCLUSION

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