Malcom X Inkster Home To Be Turned Into A Museum
Aaron Sims, co-founder of the nonprofit Project We Hope, Dream, and Believe, wants to save the home of legendary revolutionary Malcom X and turn it into a historic museum and community center. Sims and his partners at Project We Hope said, “We’ve actually been fighting to save the house for over six years,” said Sims. “In November 2017 [the] council agreed to donate the house to the Project to turn it into an historical museum and our office space.”
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According to reports, the home in Inkster once belonged to Wilfred Little, the brother Malcolm X. Malcolm X lived/visited his brother’s home on and off starting in 1953 when he was assigned as assistant minister at Temple No. 1 in Detroit until his untimely death in 1965 in Manhattan. Sims says that, “He was still Malcolm Little when he moved to the city of Inkster. “He worked at the Ford Motor Company Wayne Stamping Plant and at Cut Right Carpentry. That house is where he wrote his first speech.”
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Sims draws inspiration for turning the home into a museum from Martin Luther King birth home in Atlanta,GA. Sims says there has been much damage done to the home, due to the fire and normal wear and tear to the home from it not being renovated in years. The walls have to be stripped down to the studs and Sims says he has clean up date scheduled for Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, when he and the organizers hope to finish that phase of the work. Sims says he has much work ahead of him, but is hoping to get museum up and running in the near future.
