Malcolm wrote requesting a transfer from Concord to Norfolk Prison Colony. This letter marks an active effort to shape his conditions of confinement and access to education. The move mattered:...
A prison application letter documents Malcolm Little's request to join the Nation of Islam. The document places his religious change within a wider network of Black family and movement organizing:...
In a letter to Ella Little Collins, Malcolm reflected on prison life and asked about family and baseball. Such correspondence counters portrayals of his prison years as a solitary moral awakening. His...
