How does the author introduce Malcolm X’s father?

In the autobiography transcribed by Alex Haley, Malcolm X's father, Earl Little, is introduced within terrorizing, yet auspicious, circumstances:

When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night. Surrounding the house, brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out. My mother went to the front door and opened it. Standing...

In the autobiography transcribed by Alex Haley, Malcolm X's father, Earl Little, is introduced within terrorizing, yet auspicious, circumstances:

When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night. Surrounding the house, brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out. My mother went to the front door and opened it. Standing where they could see her pregnant condition, she told them that she was alone with her three children, and that my father was away, preaching, in Milwaukee. The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we had better get out of town because 'the good Christian white people' were not going to stand for my father's 'spreading trouble' among the 'good' Negroes of Omaha with the 'back to Africa' preachings of Marcus Garvey (3).

This is the first paragraph of the autobiography. Here, Malcolm X establishes his position, not only within his family narrative, but also—from the womb—within the politics of resistance, as well as contentions with white supremacy. 

Also, despite later accusations of sexism (see: Manning Marable's more objective biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention), his mother takes precedence in this narrative. She is the hero, standing firm against armed and disguised vigilantes, protecting her children and making them visible. 

The Klansmen, on the other hand, are presented as cowards, fearful of a man who questions and disrupts their position of unquestioned dominance. Malcolm would evolve into someone who would take a position similar to his father's, but would threaten white supremacy, not merely in his community, but on an international scale.