Lansing and Malcolm X – Part One

In part one of a three part episode, host David Siwik discusses life in Lansing in the 1920s and 1930s as the childhood home of Malcolm X, with a focus on broader socioeconomic realities in the city and elsewhere at the time. Siwik discusses the arrival of the Little family into Lansing in the 1920s and the broader cultural dynamic their arrival into a growing industrial city with strained race relations.Keywords/Tags:Malcolm XEarl LittleLouise LittleLansingMichiganUnited StatesMichigan History1920sGreat MigrationHarlem RenaissanceAmerican history 1920s-1940sAutobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley, by Alex HaleyMalcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning MarableFederal Housing AdministrationHome Owner’s Loan CorporationNew DealNational Housing Act, 1934