... when he left. In a way, Malcolm was left on his own. Of course Malcolm didn"t listen; he was often in the ghetto. There was a pool hall in the ghetto that Malcolm frequented. At the pool hall, he met a guy named Shorty. Shorty and Malcolm became good friends. Malcolm became known throughout ... Boston as "Detroit Red" or "Red". Soon after that, Red started selling drugs and moved to Harlem, New York. While in Harlem he became ... refused to travel anywhere without bodyguards. On February 14, 1965, the home where Malcolm, Betty, and their four daughters lived in East Elmhurst, New York, ...

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... in Boston. He grew to be accepted in the underclass. He had many odd jobs in Boston un til he went to Harlem, where he learned to survive in the ghetto as a hustler. Due to his reddish hair colour, his street name was "Detroit Red'. He became dependent on drugs, got into trouble and returned to Boston to organize a burglary ring ... race problem was separation of the races. Malcolm preached black pride, reaffirmation and gave black women images of black men they could respect. His message found its audience in the ghetto. For him, the white race was an enemy to all others and the only w...

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... he see a difference in Boston and Lansing, he also saw a difference between the lifestyle of the middle-class blacks and the "ghetto" blacks. Ella, like majority of the middle class blacks, live in the neighborhood of Roxbury, while the "ghetto" blacks, who have less money, live further down the hill. Malcolm is drawn to the latter, objecting to the ways in which ... pleasures and vices of urban nightlife. Malcolm begins to shoot craps, to play cards and the numbers, to drink, to smoke, and to use drugs. Malcolm's first exposure to New York dazzles him, and he sees all of Harlem's famou...

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... to his defiant behavior. Malcolm's sister, Ella, from Boston, Massachusetts would frequently visit him and eventually took custody. In Boston, Malcolm was more attracted to the street life in the Ghetto surroundings rather than his sister's upper class society in Roxbury, a city in Boston. He eventually meets people who make a negative impact on his life there. He begins to search for ... get into serious trouble with the law. After awhile he leaves and begins to work on the railroad, this eventually led to his first trip in New York City. He eventually lives in Harlem, New York. He get...

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... honorable, and I considered myself nervy and cunning enough to live by my wits, exploiting any prey that presented itself I would risk just about anything. Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterdays and today's school drop outs are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did and they inevitably move ... , who taught what was right in his eyes.10 Unfortunately, on Feb., 1965, Malcolm Little (a.k.a. Malcolm X, a.k.a. Malik El-Shabazz) was assassinated in a public auditorium (The Audubon Ballroom) in Harlem, New York City. ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School