s how he remembered his father, an ambitious dreamer attempting to maintain himself while bigoted white policemen, Ku Klux Klansmen, and Black Legionnaires were determined to teach him to stay in "his place". The father of Malcolm X was killed while fighting against the restricted place that was assigned to his people in this country. Much later, and in many different ways, Malcolm X continued the same fight and was subsequently killed for the same reason. (John Henrik Clarke, New York City – November 1969)
             After his father's death, Malcolm's mother, Louise, broke down emotionally and mentally and in 1939 was committed to a mental institution in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The younger children were put in foster homes. Malcolm had alre
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