Ku Klux Klan's 1925 attack on Malcolm X's family home in Omaha heralded the fight to come

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POSTED: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2015 1:00 AM
By Erin Grace / World-Herald staff writer

As the place of his birth, Omaha seems like a brief footnote in the short life of Malcolm X.

Yet the frightening experience his family had here just before he was born undoubtedly shaped Malcolm’s racial consciousness and played a role in his evolution as a civil rights firebrand.

Malcolm X leads his autobiography with the night the Ku Klux Klan rode up to his parents’ house in north Omaha:

“The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we better get out of town because ‘the good Christian white people’ were not going to stand for my father’s ‘spreading trouble’ among the ‘good’ Negroes of Omaha.”

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