While the Swerlings don’t understand his decision, Malcolm feels that he will be stuck in a menial job if he remains with them and so he decides to leave.
In 1940, Malcolm moves with his half-sister Ella in Boston in a wealthy black neighborhood. Over the years, Malcolm works as a dish washer and visits his mother and siblings as often as he can. Despite being good at school, his teachers don’t think that he will be able to achieve his dreams of being a lawyer. Malcolm moves with a white foster family names Swerlins in 1937. The Great depression also starts during those times and Malcolm’s mother is sent to a mental hospital after she refuses to accept free pork claiming that they can’t eat it because they are members of the Seventh Day Adventists. Their home is burned to the ground by white extremists and when Malcolm turn six, his father is killed. The family then moves to Lansing in 1929 but they don’t escape the problems being black brings. His mother meanwhile stayed and home and cooked and cleaned for the family because she was unable to find work despite being very light skinned.
Malcolm was the lightest skinned child in the family and his father began to take him with him to the UNIA meetings. Then, his mother was attacked by white supremacists because Malcolm’s father, Earl Little, was involved in a movement that supported the return to Arica of those who wanted it.
The first chapter presents events happening before Malcolm’s birth, during the time his mother was pregnant with him. ? SUPPORT BESTBOOKBITS BY CLICKING THE LINKS BELOW ? MY FREE BOOK TO LIVING YOUR DREAM LIFE”
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