Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925, to Earl and Louise Little, in a house at 3448 Pinkney Street. His birth certificate names University Hospital; the Omaha historian Bertha Calloway found that he was born at home. Earl Little organized for Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and preached on North 24th Street. In the month after Malcolm was born, Klansmen came to the house while Louise was there alone with her children, broke the windows with their gun butts and told the family to leave. In 1926 they moved to Milwaukee.
The house came down in 1965, torn down by the Moore family, who owned it and did not know its history. In 1970 Rowena Moore's sister read the Autobiography and found the address. Moore, a civic and union activist whose father had lived in the house, spent the rest of her life on the site: a memorial in 1971, the National Register in 1984, and in May 1987 the first official Nebraska historical marker for an African American. Malcolm X had come back once, to speak at the Omaha Civic Auditorium on June 30, 1964.
The Nebraska Hall of Fame passed him over after nominations in 1986 and 2004 before choosing him in 2022, and his bust by Nathan Murray went into the State Capitol on May 22, 2024, the first Black person so honored. The foundation Moore started holds about ten acres of grass and gardens here and is planning a cultural center and museum.
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