Malcolm X: life of the week

Hello and welcome to Life of the Week, where leading historians delve into the lives of some of history's most intriguing and significant figures, from ancient Egyptian pharaohs and medieval warriors to daring 20th century spies. Malcolm X was one of the most influential and sometimes divisive figures of the US civil rights movement. In this episode of our Life of the Week series, Ashley D. Farmer tells Matt Elton about his life, times and legacy, and highlights some of the figures who shaped his worldview.

Ashley, we are here today to talk about Malcolm X, his life, his times, his interior life, and I suppose some of the people who shaped him and his worldview. Before we get into all of that, what are the pertinent things that you think we need to know about the lives of Malcolm's parents in the years before their son was born? That's a great question. So Malcolm's parents are really interesting people in their own right. They met at

a black nationalist meeting, a meeting of a man named Marcus Garvey who created the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which we often shortened to the UNIA in Montreal actually. So his mother Louise was a very interesting woman. She spoke multiple languages. She had traveled from the Caribbean to the states. She had worked

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