Ilyasah Shabazz said Malcolm only had $600 when he died.

Actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis gave tremendous support both financial and emotional. The Wallace family generously housed us for about a month after my father's assassination. After that we moved for a brief time to a hotel, then to the home of Sidney Poitier and his wife at the time, Juanita Poitier. They were friends of the famiy, activist, and supporters of the movement, and they must have wanted to help my mother in whatever way they could.

Mommy with Mr Sutton's help, found us a home in Mount Vernon, a city in Westchester County less than a thirty minute train ride from New York city. Part of the down payment came from the royalties from my father's Autobiography. Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and others also helped out, holding fund raising parties in our family's honor. My mother also helped make ends meet by working as a nurse when she could. But with six young daughters to raise, meager savings, and no life insurance payment, she struggle financially. My father had 600 dollars to his name the day he was assassinated.