Clarence Lang

They built their own home on the outskirts of that town.

And so they lived a bit of a rural experience.

They had a rural lifestyle.

It was often hand to mouth.

But within that, they practiced a great deal of self-reliance.

So they grew a lot of their food.

Their mom was very strict about their diet and was resistant to their eating pork, even though

Their father, Earl Little, was comfortable with that, but it was all part of trying to practice under duress self-reliance in the ways that they could.

And that was very hard on the family.

There was domestic abuse that occurred, driven in part by the pressures they faced externally.

And certainly in the early 1930s, during the Depression, Malcolm's father died under very suspicious circumstances.

Malcolm asserts that his father was killed,

by local Knight Riders, Klan members and the like.

And that's certainly within the realm of possibility.

That was not the official finding, but that certainly created a context that intensified the economic and social pressures on the family, because here you have now Louise Little,

trying to feed a growing family.

She ended up having another child with another gentleman who subsequently abandoned the family.

So we're talking about eight children at that point.

And she was very prideful, or at least she's described that way.

But she, at a certain point, state authorities were able to intervene