Ella Little-Collins

Ella Little-Collins (February 11, 1914 – August 3, 1996) was an American civil rights activist and the half-sister of Malcolm X. She was born in Butler, Georgia, to Earl Little and Daisy Little (née Mason); her paternal grandparents were John (Big Pa) Lee Little and Ella Little (née Gray), and her siblings were Mary Little and Earl Lee Little Jr. She had seven half-siblings from her father's second marriage: Wilfred, Philbert, Hilda, Reginald, Malcolm, Wesley, and Yvonne. She supported black and ethnic studies programs in universities across the United States and founded the Sarah A. Little School of Preparatory Arts in Boston. At the end of the school year, he moved to Roxbury to live with her, and she was his guardian until he turned 21. Its exterior was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1998, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam in 1964, Little-Collins paid for him to make the Hajj. She also paid his funeral and business expenses after his assassination, and took over his Organization of Afro-American Unity, including his project of giving 35 scholarships from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, and from the University of Ghana to students wishing to study overseas.

In 1988, both of Little-Collins' legs were amputated due to gangrene.