MALCOLM LITTLE

All this week, students from Wayne State University have been working to uncover history at a home that once belonged to Malcolm X.

FILE - In this March 29, 2016, file photo, signs call attention to the house where slain African-American leader Malcolm X spent part of his childhood in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. According to the National Park Service the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February 2021. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)BOSTON – Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The former Malcolm Little was a teenager in the 1940s when he came to live with his sister, Ella Little Collins. Little Collins, who was a civil rights organizer in her own right, became her brother’s legal guardian after his father died and his mother was institutionalized.

FILE - In this June 29, 1963, file photo, Malcolm X addresses a rally in Harlem in New York. “I think it would get the city to appreciate Malcolm X and the Little (family) more,” Edmund Rushton told the Lansing State Journal. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Nebraska, lived in Lansing until 1940 when he was placed in foster homes in Mason. Malcolm X returned to Lansing in 1955 and started holding NOI meetings in Lansing. The Little family lived in three homes in the area prior to Earl Little’s death, Malcolm X wrote in his autobiography.