Malcolm Little Malcolm Little, the son of Louise and Earl Little, grew up in the town of Harlem. It was a town like most other towns in the late fifties, blacks having there own drinking fountains, restroom, sections on the bus and so on. He grew up watching Earl Little, his father fight for the right of his people. He had been taken to U.N.I.A. meetings where he had heard his father give many speeches and he knew about the issues in which a black man faced. Malcolm woke up one morning to his mother screaming. His father had been run over by a street car. That marked the beginning of many rough years to come. He soon learned what severe hunger was like. Since