... harassment may have even been worse than it was in Omaha. A racist mob set the house on fire that the Little family lived in during 1929, while policemen and firefighters stood there and watched their house burn to the ground. The harassment towards the Little family got even worse in 1931 when one day his father's lifeless body was found. The little ... out of school at the age of 15 while he was only in the eighth grade. (Malcolm X biography). After Malcolm dropped out of school, Malcolm was headed for a life of crime. He became known as Detroit Red. During this life of crime, Malcolm...

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... was placed with a white family who owned a private school for whites. Malcolm was treated like a house pet or a dog and was talked about like he wasn't there. Throughout his life he had categorized different parts with different names. For example as a child he was Malcom Little, as a young man he was referred to as Detroit Red. This is when he lived in the city ... and before he even had any sense of the man he was to ... become. Red had his hands into everything, he was the product of a poor black ghetto. He pushed dope, played the numbers, peddled ... ...

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... Kennedy ignored his claims for civil rights but in his later presidency he changed and began trying to pass laws against segregation. During the sixties, the Civil Rights Movement was in full force. With leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Movement grew to be one of the most important movement ... in the sixties. The movement was started in the fifties-- and it hit it's peek with Dr. Martin Luther King. . By early 1965 a new ... to enter the college after he was rejected three times because of the color of his skin. Rioting breaks out in Detroit killing peopl...

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