🦉MIXED MALCOM X 🦉 . Louise Helen Norton Langdon was born in November 4, 1894 at La Digue, Saint Andrew Parish, Grenada. Her mother was Ella Langdon, the daughter of Jupiter and Mary Jane Langdon, both of whom were kidnapped by other Africans from the region of modern-day Nigeria and sold into slavery, before being freed by the British Royal Navy; the pair were eventually transported to the Grenadian village of La Digue.It has been claimed that Louise's mother, Ella, one of six children of the Langdons, was raped by a "significantly older" Scotsman named Norton, resulting in Louise's birth. . 🦉 Little was raised by her grandparents, Jupiter and Mary Jane, until his death in 1901 and hers in 1916. She was educated in a local Anglican school, and was fluent in English, French and Grenadian Creole French. After her grandmother's death, she emigrated from Grenada in 1917 to Montreal, where her uncle Egerton Langdon introduced her to Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). . Through the UNIA in Montreal, she met Earl Little, a craftsman and lay minister from Reynolds, Georgia. The couple married on May 10, 1919. Earl and Louise had seven children together, one of them was Malcom. . 🦉 In late 1938 she had a nervous breakdown and was committed to Kalamazoo State Hospital. The children were separated and sent to foster homes. Malcolm—who had become a criminal, then convicted, imprisoned, and released, and rose to fame as Malcolm X, a leading minister of the Nation of Islam—joined his siblings in securing her release from the hospital. She lived with her surviving family and descendants for the rest of her life. . #mixedexcellence #mixedhistory #mixedpeople #malcomx #mixed #mixedexistence #blm https://www.instagram.com/p/CWjmhx3Nvxg/?utm_medium=tumblr
