Lansing-area activists seek to honor Malcolm X, his family

Lansing-area activists seek to honor Malcolm X, his family
Krystal Nurse
Lansing – Malcolm X is a well-known civil rights figure with roots in Lansing, yet many do not know about the icon and his family. Two East Lansing residents hope to change that.
His family lived in several Lansing neighborhoods. The city named a street after Malcolm X, and for more than two decades, a charter school carried his Muslim name, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Academy.
So far, there’s been no commemoration of his parents, Earl and Louise Little, who moved the family to Lansing in 1928.
“I think it would get the city to appreciate Malcolm X and the Little (family) more,” Edmund Rushton told the Lansing State Journal. “It’s not to single anyone out or make them look bad. But Malcolm X is deeply, deeply tied to Lansing and people need to know. They need to know that there has been an effort in the past to hide this from people.”

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