Aad 160 Book Report: The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

Charene Hawkins

Professor Holder

May 18th, 2016

AAD 160

Book Report: The Autobiography of Malcolm X Throughout history, we’ve learned about a majority of all the civil rights leaders and how they fought for equal rights and to end segregation. Malcolm X was one of the main civil rights leaders that demanded change and would do anything necessary to acquire it. To understand a man with such wisdom, guidance, perseverance, courage and drive you have to walk through his life. The autobiography of Malcolm X takes you through the journey of brother X’s life and the trials, tribulations and challenges he faced to find himself and what he was destined to do. This book not only talks about his life, but reflects upon the reader a different way of

He was his father’s seventh child and his mother’s third. He had a total of seven siblings and three half brothers and sisters. His father, Reverend Earl Little was a Baptist minister and dedicated organizer for Marcus Garvey’s U.N.I.A (Universal Negro Improvement Association). His mother, Louise Little was a Grenadian highly light skin woman with straight black hair. During this period, Omaha was subjected to discrimination and racial violence. Being that his father was a minister that preached to the black community about the back to Africa movement, the Klu Klux Klan would threaten and harass Malcolm’s family.

To ensure a safe environment Malcolm’s family decided to migrate to Michigan where they continue to be tormented and belittled. Eventually, the same incidents begin to occur and ended drastically when Klan’s men murdered his father in effect forcing his mother to have a nervous breakdown sending into a mental hospital. After losing both his parents he goes and lives in a Michigan detention home and completes the eighth grade. He later moves again, but to Boston, Massachusetts, with his half-sister, Ella. Throughout Malcolm’s life he moved from place to place a lot, he never was use to living in one place too

He passes for being much older than he is, wearing flashy clothes, gambling, drinking, doing drugs, and dating an older white woman, Sophia. This was the beginning of Malcolm’s life starting to spiral out of control and he eventually becomes lost. In 1945, he then moves to New York, where he begins hustling in Harlem; running numbers, selling drugs and committing armed robberies. When life in Harlem becomes too dangerous, Malcolm returns to Boston, where he continues this gruesome behavior continues to engage in illegal acts, house burglar and is eventually arrested.

In a bird’s eye Malcolm was headed in one or two places the way he was acting, dead or in prison. In prison, Malcolm found himself and began to be more disciplined doing a complete 360 transformation. Religion was always installed in his since he was a child, but converting to the branch of Islam increased his faith. Malcolm stops using drugs; he reads voraciously, prays, taught himself English and Latin, and joined the prison debate team. The foundations of his impeccable speak and voice of