... at the hands of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan. Two years later his father, a Georgia Baptist minister who stressed black nationalism and pride, was murdered, and Malcolm's mother was subsequently placed in a psychiatry. Malcolm spent the following years in detention homes, and in his early teens he moved to Boston to live with his sister. He was the only black pupil in his school ... Foxx. Malcolm's nickname on the street was "Detroit Red" because of his reddish hair and his light complexion (his grandmother had been raped by a white man). Drugs became the centre of his life. When ...

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