Compare And Contrast Malcolm X And Frederick Douglass

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Upon reading these two texts, the main thing that stuck out to me was from “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X. In his story, he calls for the “history of the black man”, as opposed to countless stories about and by a select, white few. It reminded me of a Ted Talk we watched in freshman year English, “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (which I’ll link at the end). In it, she talks about how she only ever knew of white stories by white authors about white characters. The world of literature wasn’t for people who looked like her; it was a world of unreachable otherness. For both Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass, learning to read wasn’t enough; they were longing to read about people like them. Douglass talks about searching