People in Inkster, Michigan, are celebrating a significant day as visitors toured the home where Malcolm X became Malcolm X, just two days before what would've been his 100th birthday.

"To be able to represent Malcolm this way in the City of Inkster, to restore the home that he lived in when he was released from prison, this is history," Dawon Lynn, a board member with the Inkster-based nonprofit Project We Hope Dream and Believe, said. "This is something we know Malcolm is smiling down on us right here, for this."

A modest house on Williams Street in Inkster once belonged to Malcolm X's brother and sister-in-law, Wilfred and Ruth Little.

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And it was in this home during the 1950s that the African American revolutionary and human rights activist Malcolm X changed his nam

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