The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X

Marcus Aurelius Garvey’s U.N.I.A. (Universal Negro Improvement Association).

And Yvonne and Robert went to live with a West Indian family named McGuire.

The Lyonses and I, as it happened, were the town’s only Negroes. They were, as Negroes, very much respected. Mr. Lyons was a smart, hardworking man, and Mrs. Lyons was a very good woman. She and my mother, I had heard my mother say, were two of the four West Indians in that whole section of Michigan.