ter his fathers death the family began to fall apart. They were very poor and eventually had to go on welfare. With welfare agent s making constant visits Lousie, Malcom's mother, began to become distant. She soon started talking to herself and eventually she suffered a complete breakdown and was sent to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo (Haley, 22). Malcom moved into juvenile home but fifteen in 1941 he moved him to Boston with his half sister Ella.
             In Boston he met a friend called he called Shorty who got him a job at a ballroom shinning shoes and introduced him to hassling. He began dating a white lady named Sophia but Ella disapproved and got Malcom a railroad job. This job kept him on the go and he liked that but he didn't give up Sophia. He came back to Boston several times a week and when he finally stayed in New York she still supplied him with clothes and money (Stine, 25)
             He stayed in Harlem and got a job Small's Paradise whose rules were no lateness, no laziness, no stealing, and no hassling. Malcom tried to stay straight but one day he hustled a customer and when Charlie Small found out he fired Malcom. So Malcom was back out on the tough streets of Harlem selling marijuana to musicians and doing drugs himself. Then he became a number runner who passed along illegal bets and later he robbed neighborhood stores (Haley, 93).
             In 1945 after avoiding the draft Malcom went back to Boston and met up wi
             ...