Title: Betty before X
Description: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
Subjects: Families, Stepfamilies, Juvenile fiction, Racism, Family life, Civil rights movements, Fiction, African Americans, Childhood and youth, History, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Detroit (mich.), fiction, Civil rights movements, fiction, African americans, fiction, Stepfamilies, fiction
Places: Michigan, Detroit (Mich.), Detroit
People: Betty Shabazz
Time periods: 20th century