Peace to Louise Little. May God watch over the Little’s for eternity. Little is known about Louise Little — she was put in a mental asylum and her children were left to the state. This was 14 years after her house was burned down by the KKK due to her and her husband’s activism. She was pregnant with Malcolm X at the time. She was widowed at the time of being put in the mental asylum and she remained there for 25 years. Louise and her husband, Earl, were unapologetic activists who pushed a message of revolution in the new Black communities of the unwelcoming Midwest. They were targeted by the KKK as a result. She had waged an eight-year battle against welfare workers, police and judges. Helen Louise Langdon was born on the Caribbean island of Grenada between 1894 and 1897. Her father was white, but it is unknown the nature of the relationship between the father and mother whether it was one of consent or not. Louise was a baby when her mother died, so she was raised by her grandmother Mary Jane Langdon and her aunt Gertrude. Mary Jane and her husband, Jupiter, who also died when Louise was small, were captured in West Africa when they were young but were freed by the British Navy sometime after 1833, when imperial Britain banned slavery. Louise studied at a local Anglican school, excelled in writing, spoke English, French and Creole and absorbed world history — however slanted a version — from the Royal Reader textbooks given to millions of children across the British Empire. Louise Little was immediately drawn to Marcus Garvey’s ethos of self-determination and Pan-African confraternity — as was Earl Little, a Baptist minister and recent immigrant who had escaped the violence of Jim Crow Georgia. The two married after meeting at a Garvey event. As the Little children began to attend school, Louise took on a new role: a prescient form of the activist parent. She worked to counter what the children were taught, correcting the routine slander about Black people to inoculate her children against self-hatred. Absolutely beautiful. Malcolm X is quoted as saying “…she was a most Faithful Servant of the Truth years ago. I praise Allah for her.”