When Malcolm X checked out the West Midlands

It was a time of high racial stress– when a town in the West Midlands even chose an MP who upheld partition. That was 60 years earlier– and in an amazing minute of history, the United States civil liberties advocate Malcolm X was so disrupted by the reports– he took a trip to Smethwick in the Black Country to see the scenario for himself. Days later on, he was shot dead after he went back to the United States.

Our neighborhoods editor Darshna Soni has actually been to see how Smethwick is marking that day. Know her report consists of some outdated language audiences might discover offending.