Mother of Malcolm X. Her maiden name was Norton, but she was raised by her maternal grandparents, who had the last name Langdon. Her death certificate gives her year of death as 1989.
The following biography is courtesy of Blakaveli:
In her early life, Louise Little was an activist-intellectual committed to advancing grass-roots Garveyism for the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). She, along with her husband Earl Little, nurtured principles of black self-determination to her children who would change the world. Born in 1894, Little came from an oppositional culture in Grenada that would stoke her Pan-Africanism. Seeking a better life, she immigrated to Canada in 1917, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and made her way to the American heartland. In 1918, she met Earl Little at a UNIA meeting in Montreal. The couple shared a passion for Pan-Africanism and married on May 10, 1919. They moved to Philadelphia to help build the Garvey movement. In 1921 the UNIA assigned Louise and Earl Little to Omaha, Nebraska to build the organization chapter there. The couple would defy the racism enacted by state officials and Klan members. She acted as a bookkeeper for the local UNIA chapter. In addition to her Grassroots work, she worked closely with Marcus Garvey. When Garvey was on the run from the FBI, she would hid him in their house and write letters and dispatches for him. After an attack from Klan night riders, the Little family moved Lansing, Michigan. Following the murder of her husband, she was confined to the Kalamazoo State Hospital for 24 years. With the help of her children, she was released in 1963 and lived a quiet life with her family in Woodland Park, Michigan until she passed away.
The following biography is courtesy of Blakaveli:
In her early life, Louise Little was an activist-intellectual committed to advancing grass-roots Garveyism for the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). She, along with her husband Earl Little, nurtured principles of black self-determination to her children who would change the world. Born in 1894, Little came from an oppositional culture in Grenada that would stoke her Pan-Africanism. Seeking a better life, she immigrated to Canada in 1917, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and made her way to the American heartland. In 1918, she met Earl Little at a UNIA meeting in Montreal. The couple shared a passion for Pan-Africanism and married on May 10, 1919. They moved to Philadelphia to help build the Garvey movement. In 1921 the UNIA assigned Louise and Earl Little to Omaha, Nebraska to build the organization chapter there. The couple would defy the racism enacted by state officials and Klan members. She acted as a bookkeeper for the local UNIA chapter. In addition to her Grassroots work, she worked closely with Marcus Garvey. When Garvey was on the run from the FBI, she would hid him in their house and write letters and dispatches for him. After an attack from Klan night riders, the Little family moved Lansing, Michigan. Following the murder of her husband, she was confined to the Kalamazoo State Hospital for 24 years. With the help of her children, she was released in 1963 and lived a quiet life with her family in Woodland Park, Michigan until she passed away.
Mother of Malcolm X. Her maiden name was Norton, but she was raised by her maternal grandparents, who had the last name Langdon. Her death certificate gives her year of death as 1989.
The following biography is courtesy of Blakaveli:
In her early life, Louise Little was an activist-intellectual committed to advancing grass-roots Garveyism for the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). She, along with her husband Earl Little, nurtured principles of black self-determination to her children who would change the world. Born in 1894, Little came from an oppositional culture in Grenada that would stoke her Pan-Africanism. Seeking a better life, she immigrated to Canada in 1917, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and made her way to the American heartland. In 1918, she met Earl Little at a UNIA meeting in Montreal. The couple shared a passion for Pan-Africanism and married on May 10, 1919. They moved to Philadelphia to help build the Garvey movement. In 1921 the UNIA assigned Louise and Earl Little to Omaha, Nebraska to build the organization chapter there. The couple would defy the racism enacted by state officials and Klan members. She acted as a bookkeeper for the local UNIA chapter. In addition to her Grassroots work, she worked closely with Marcus Garvey. When Garvey was on the run from the FBI, she would hid him in their house and write letters and dispatches for him. After an attack from Klan night riders, the Little family moved Lansing, Michigan. Following the murder of her husband, she was confined to the Kalamazoo State Hospital for 24 years. With the help of her children, she was released in 1963 and lived a quiet life with her family in Woodland Park, Michigan until she passed away.
The following biography is courtesy of Blakaveli:
In her early life, Louise Little was an activist-intellectual committed to advancing grass-roots Garveyism for the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). She, along with her husband Earl Little, nurtured principles of black self-determination to her children who would change the world. Born in 1894, Little came from an oppositional culture in Grenada that would stoke her Pan-Africanism. Seeking a better life, she immigrated to Canada in 1917, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and made her way to the American heartland. In 1918, she met Earl Little at a UNIA meeting in Montreal. The couple shared a passion for Pan-Africanism and married on May 10, 1919. They moved to Philadelphia to help build the Garvey movement. In 1921 the UNIA assigned Louise and Earl Little to Omaha, Nebraska to build the organization chapter there. The couple would defy the racism enacted by state officials and Klan members. She acted as a bookkeeper for the local UNIA chapter. In addition to her Grassroots work, she worked closely with Marcus Garvey. When Garvey was on the run from the FBI, she would hid him in their house and write letters and dispatches for him. After an attack from Klan night riders, the Little family moved Lansing, Michigan. Following the murder of her husband, she was confined to the Kalamazoo State Hospital for 24 years. With the help of her children, she was released in 1963 and lived a quiet life with her family in Woodland Park, Michigan until she passed away.
