This is Malcolm X's wife Betty Shabazz. She was born May 28, 1934, to a Ollie Sanders. Betty's original name was Betty Dean Sanders but changed it to Betty X to represent the loss of her African heritage. She spent her child hood in Detroit and may have been born in Pinehurst, Georgia but her birth records are lost. At age 11 she was living with a businessman and his wife Lorenzo and Helen Malloy. Helen was a big activist and organized boycotts against stores. After high school she went to study at the Tuskegee institute in Alabama. This time there was the "Jim Crow South" so she was angered by this. In 1953 she moved out of Alabama to Brooklyn State in New York City to study nursing. In her second year in the school one of the old nurses invited her to a dinner party at the Nation of Islam temple in Harlem. She didn't join the Nation of Islam at this visit but her next one she met Malcolm X and joined in 1956. She married Malcolm on January 14, 1958 and had a family. In 1964 Malcolm said that his family was leaving the Nation of Islam. She died June 23, 1997 after being burned by her son in her apartment.