exist two facts about Malcolm X that I did not know and it is disturbing to know these facts.

The first fact about Malcolm X

Laura’s addiction and prostitution

Laura She was a young woman who befriended Malcolm when he first came to Boston to live with his sister Ella. She was a good girl in high school who wanted to go to college and study science or medicine.

She was an outstanding student and was the only one who tried to convince Malcolm to go back to school after he told her that he always wanted to be a lawyer.

Laura met Malcolm when he was working as a soda fountain clerk at Townsend Pharmacy which was located right across from where Laura lived with her grandmother.

Laura and Malcolm went to a dance one night and it was there that Malcolm met Sophia, a white girl who became Malcolm’s wife and her achievements in his robbery plan later in life.

Laura, heartbroken from being dumped by another woman, never returned to the pharmacy while at school.

But years later, Laura meets Malcolm again, but this time Malcolm is a cold-blooded con man who has a pimp friend named Sammy.

Malcolm and Sammy use a technique on Laura that Sammy has perfected that turns innocent girls into prostitutes.

In Malcolm’s autobiography X gives a graphic image of who Laura becomes after she is cast.

“Laura Enters and exits jail due to drugs being sold to men to maintain their habit. Then, hating the men who use her, she becomes a lesbian. I blame myself for this and ditching her for being a white woman makes this a double crime.

The second and most disturbing fact about Malcolm X

After Malcolm becomes minister of the Nation of Islam, he never locates Laura and helps her through the Nations of Islam drug rehab program, which was quickly becoming the best recognized nationally.

The Nation of Islam was also building a university specifically for people majoring in science. Given that Malcolm knew that Laura wanted to go to college and study science, it seems only fair that Laura was perfect for the Nation of Islam college program.

However, not once does Malcolm X mention the attempt to find and rescue Laura in his autobiography.

He goes to great lengths to try and find two former con artists who once tried to kill him, Sammy, who later in the story tried to kill Malcolm because another woman was already dead before Malcolm was paroled and West Indian Archie. , who threatened to kill him. for money he was ill and lived in a pension.

But no recorded attempt was ever made to rescue poor Laura, the only person Alex Haley named to a chapter.

These are just two facts about Malcolm X that are hidden in the story, but they give good explanations of how good kids like Laura with bright futures can go wrong, even today.