[from Floyd Webb...] The oral history I got on Malcolm Xs mom Louise Little from old Garveyites back in the 70s is that she continued to write for the bi-weekly UNIA Negro World newspaper long after her husband Earl was murdered. She was warned against this practice by the state welfare people who threatened to take her children if she continued this association. The work clearly has not been done on Louise Little and there is need of critical work on her role as a Garveyite and the States response to her activity. I do believe this is why she was deemed insane by the state, her unwavering commitment to black nationalism. There are reports filed by her in surviving issues of The Negro World News paper under her byline. Earl and Louise Little, met at a UNIA convention in Montreal. Earl was the president of the UNIA division in Omaha, Nebraska and sold the Negro World newspaper, for which Louise covered UNIA activities. Louise Little served as division secretary, writing reports documenting local U.N.I.A. activities and division meetings for The Negro World newspaper. Within a few years of publication(1918), The Negro World was banned in almost every other country of the world by the ruling European colonial governments of the time. In America shipments of The Negro World were constantly and conveniently lost or destroyed by the government’s postal services as they conspired with foreign offices to keep the paper out of circulation in the black diaspora. onwishesandhorses.wordpress/2011/06/13/louise-little-malcolm-x/
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