Learn about Malcolm X's childhood in Omaha and Lansing as he recalls friendships with white classmates and attacks on his family from the Ku Klux Klan in this excerpt from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "Malcolm X." Malcolm X challenges interviewer Jim Hurlbut's assertion that personal experiences of white supremacist violence have made him incapable of objectively commenting on racism in America, during this 1963 interview taped for Chicago's WMAQ-TV. This resource is part of the American Experience collection.