ther and the rest of his siblings. His house was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan, and later his father was killed in a trolley accident. People believe that the trolley incident was just a cover up for the Klan's lynching of Mr. Little. (Malcolm's last name was originally Little, but he changed it because he thought that it was a slave name. He then chose the letter X instead.) His mother later suffered a mental breakdown and Malcolm, along with the other children, were sent to foster homes. Later on in life Malcolm began to commit burglaries, and even turned to using drugs. In 1946 he was sentenced to ten years in prison. In prison he converted to the Lost-Found Nation of Islam. Malcolm was paroled in 1952 and began preaching as an Islamic minister. He preached about black nationalism, and separatism between whites and blacks. Malcolm X's speeches were delivered in an angry tone and the audience then began to feel hatred of white Americans. Later, he broke away from the black Muslim party because he realized that they were misleading him by saying that segregation was the only way to go. In 1964 Malcolm X took a pilgrimage to Mecca, as every Muslim does in their life time. When he returned his racist beliefs towards whites had changed considerably. No longer was he against black and white integration, he now wanted the two races to be able to live together in 'harmony'(Hampton 131).
             Martin Luther King Jr. was raised in a middle-
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