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Malcolm X Family Tree

Reverend Earl Little & Louise Little

Parents of Malcolm X,

Wilfred, Hilda, Philbert &

Reginald

Met & Married in Philly and had Wilfred.

Omaha, Nebraska

Hilda, Philbert & Malcolm Born

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Reverend Earl Little

Take a minute to look at this cartoon.

Read the headline on the newspaper, the dialogue in the scene, and the title of the cartoon

What is happening in this image?

This cartoon was only published in the last 3 years. How does this make you feel?

Louise Little

Reverend Earl Little died when Malcolm was only six years old. It's believed that he was murdered by a member of the Black Legion, but his official cause of death is reported as a car accident.

Reginald & Yvonne Born

Malcolm claims his red hair comes from his mother's rapist

Louise is the product of rape.

Her mother was African American and raped by a white man.

Louise was so light-skinned that she

often passed for white.

Marcus Garvey

1887-1940

The "OG"

Jamaican Political Leader

Founded the Universal Negro

Improvement Association: UNIA

"He symbolizes the turning point of the perception of black people into something positive"

U.N.I.A. Flag

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an anti-Slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852.

An "Uncle Tom" is a character that was popularized by this novel and describes a black person who is subservient to a white person. An "Uncle Tom" is often preoccupied with pleasing white people, even at the expense of his/her own friends and family.

Malcolm X

Uncle Tom

The Black Legion

1925-1965

Muslim Minister and

human rights activist

strongly influenced by the

Harlem Renaissance and

Civil Rights Movements

His father died when he was 6, and his mother was hospitalized a few years later for mental illness

Lived most of his life in foster care

At age 20, served jail time for larceny & breaking and entering

Harlem Renaissance

Became a member of the Nation of Islam; a religious group meant to improve the spiritual, ,mental, social and economic status of African Americans

Grew to be an outspoken member of this group, and after 12 years, decided to leave the group

Just a few years later in 1965, when Malcolm X was 39, three members of the Nation of Islam assassinated him

Cultural movement that spanned the 1920's - aka "The New Negro Movement"

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