In this third part of a three-part episode, Lanstories host David Siwik concludes his look at Lansing during the childhood of Malcolm X in the 1920s and 1930s. Topics discussed include housing discrimination, foster care, the death of Malcolm X's father and the threats the Little family faced from the state authorities and local white supremacist terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Legion.

Topics/Tags/Keywords

• Malcolm X
• Malcolm Little
• Earl Little
• Louis Little
• Ella Little
• Lansing
• Michigan
• Michigan History
• United States History
• 1920s
• 1930s
• Housing Discrimination
• Grand River Avenue
• Pleasant Grove Elementary School
• Pleasant Grove Avenue
• Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
• Mason
• Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital
• Ku Klux Klan
• Black Legion

In part two of a three part episode, host David Siwik continues the exploration of Lansing, Michigan in the 1920s and 1930s, with a consideration of Malcolm X’s childhood and the broader socioeconomic dynamics of a black family living in a northern city during these years. Specific episode topics include historical housing discrimination, the growth of Lansing neighborhoods and the establishment of several organizations that would play a major role in creating Lansing’s neighborhoods and the impact changes in Federal housing policy had on Lansing.

Keywords/Tags:

• Malcolm X
• Earl Little
• Louise Little
• Lansing
• Michigan
• United States
• Michigan History
• 1920s
• Great Migration
• Harlem Renaissance
• American history 1920s-1940s
• Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley, by Alex Haley
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable
• Federal Housing Administration
• Home Owner’s Loan Corporation
• New Deal
• National Housing Act, 1934

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 X
• Earl Little
• Louise Little
• Lansing
• Michigan
• United States
• Michigan History
• 1920s
• Great Migration
• Harlem Renaissance
• American history 1920s-1940s
• Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley, by Alex Haley
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable
• Federal Housing Administration
• Home Owner’s Loan Corporation
• New Deal
• National Housing Act, 1934