Magazine Street, corner of Glenwood, where the kenyan and his brother lived in Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY LINK
... In 1925, it was remodeled and converted into a 2-family house and then in 1928 into a 3-family house.
I know...they are collecting funds to turn it into a monument. Ella owned a number of properties in Boston apparently, she turned them into boarding houses.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-ella-collins-1308611.html
excerpt:
Malcolm was thrilled by the bright lights of Boston and reassured by his half-sister’s strength and confidence. When he went back to Lansing, he wrote to her, saying he wanted to move to Boston and live with her. She arranged for official custody of the boy (now a ward of the state) to be transferred from Michigan to Massachusetts.
“No physical move in my life,” Malcolm wrote later, “has been more pivotal or profound in its repercussions. All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did. If I hadn’t, I’d probably be a brainwashed black Christian.”
At about that time Ella Collins broke up with her second husband, a soldier called Frank. (Her first husband was a doctor, and she later married for a third time.) She had paid, with the money she made from her rented property, for several members of the family to move from Georgia to Boston.
Since her days working for Adam Clayton Powell, Collins had been committed to the struggle for civil rights, but in the 1950s Malcolm persuaded her to join the Nation of Islam, the so-called “black Muslims”, founded by Elijah Muhammad, another disciple of Marcus Garvey. She helped to establish the Nation’s mosque in Boston and a day-care centre attached to it.
http://savingplaces.org/treasures/malcolm-x
Built in 1874, this modest structure is the last known surviving boyhood home of Malcolm X. He shared the house with his half sister, Ella Little-Collins, whose son is the current owner. Largely vacant for over 30 years, plans are in development to rehabilitate and reuse the deteriorating property. In partnership with Historic Boston, Rodnell Collins dreams of preserving Malcolm X’s legacy by transforming the house into living quarters for graduate students who are studying African American history, social justice, or civil rights.
Magazine Street, corner of Glenwood, where the kenyan and his brother lived in Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY LINK
... In 1925, it was remodeled and converted into a 2-family house and then in 1928 into a 3-family house.
Auntie Ella brought up Malcolm Little from the age of 15 when he was a Ward of State, after his father was killed in a trolley car accident and his mother was confined to an asylum. Ella Collins seems to have been a very resourceful woman. Whilst the kenyan student and his brother were living at Magazine Street, he told his Harvard associates that he visited his son several times. The question now is, which one of the two little boys was his son?
Was it the one who resembles him, or the one on the left who quite obviously doesn't?