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