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At 16 he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At 19 he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At 20 he was in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the name Malcolm X, and there he developed his beliefs about what being black means in America: beliefs that shook America then, and still shake America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew men in American history are as controversial or compelling as Malcolm X. 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