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Malcolm x is born malcolm little in Omaha, Nebraska. The Midwest, during this period, is full of discrimination and racial violence. Malcolm's family moves to Michigan where they continue to experience persecution and violence. White people murder Malcolm's father and force his mother into a mental hospital. After living in a Michigan detention home and completing the eighth grade, Malcolm moves to Boston, Massachusetts, to live with his half-sister, Ella. In Boston Malcolm quickly becomes involved in urban nightlife. He passes for being much older than he is, wearing flashy clothes, gambling, drinking, doing drugs, and dating an older white woman, Sophia. Malcolm eventually takes a job as a railway porter. He then moves to New York, where he begins working as a hustler in Harlem. Malcolm's various jobs there include running numbers, selling drugs, and steering white people to black brothels. He also commits armed robberies.
When life in Harlem becomes too dangerous, Malcolm......

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