Civil rights leader and one-time Nation of Islam devotee Malcolm X adopted the "X" to replace the slave name that had been forced on his family. What was that last name?

Long before his rise to fame, Malcolm X was just a regular young man nicknamed Malcolm Little trying to get by in 1940s New York. His odd jobs included working as a dishwasher at Jimmy's Chicken Shack in Harlem alongside another Red: future comedy star Redd Foxx.

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