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Born in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Enrolled in West Junior High School, in Lansing
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Enrolls in Mason High School in Mason, Michigan.
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Convicted of larceny, breaking and entering, and carrying a weapon. Malcolm is sentenced to eight to ten years in prison. He starts to serve the term in Charlestown Prison
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Transferred to Norfolk Prison Colony, Massachusetts, where there is a great library.
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Becomes the Minister of Temple Number Seven, located in New York.
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Attracted to Betty Sanders, a nurse, he marries her in January.
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Meets Martin Luther King, Jr. for the first and only time after a King news conference.
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Betty Shabazz , the only person he would trust with his life, dies in a fire allegedly set by grandson, Malcolm, named after Malcolm X.