Thesis: In “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, Malcolm X in his telling of his life to Alex Haley uncovers the theme of positive and negative environments unearthed by the interaction of African Americans and White Americans in his life and what those kinds of environments inherently produce. Annotated Bibliography Nelson, Emmanuel S. Ethnic American Literature: an Encyclopedia for Students. Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015.This encyclopedia points out that the negative interaction he held with the white man as a young hustler was countered by these same experiences pushing Malcolm X to reclaim his “African identity”. This shows, as described by the cited work, what a man pushed by his negative interactions with the oppressive white men is willing to do to find his identity (i.e. through hustling).
“Learning to Read”, by Malcolm X reveals that he had a reading and writing problem. Malcolm X wanted to get the attention of Elijah Muhammad, but did not have the skills to write to him through letter while he was in jail. Muhammad was a religious leader and all Malcolm X knew was his street slang. Malcolm X was frustrated that he cannot express his thoughts through letter, because he didn’t know how. He decided while he was in jail to learn how to write and read, by copying the dictionary.
As Barack Obama said, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” In the biography, “Malcolm X” by Walter Dean Myers shows what made Malcolm what he is known for. Initially, Malcolm went through several events in his life that made him what he is known for including the fact that of course African-Americans were segregated.
Eng. IV “Institutional Oppression is the systematic mistreatment of people within a social identity group, supported and enforced by the society and its institutions, solely based on the person's membership in the social identity group.” In The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, the ideas of systemic oppression and ‘social’ or racial identity are frequently expressed through the conflicts and events in Malcolm's life. Every facet of Malcolm's life had been influenced or affected greatly by the socially instituted oppression placed on him by his racial identity.
Epilogue Malcolm x, a muslim scholar who dedicated his life to finding peace between blacks and whites. Malcolm x being a black muslim, hated the terms slave, nigger, and white America. Malcolm x devoted his life to contributing to the nation of Islam, but he also showed the blacks another side. The followers of Martin Luther King were taught to be non-violent and allow themselves to get beaten up by police and other whites, Malcolm x told his followers to defend themselves if anyone was to attack them. A few years before Malcolm x was assassinated he met someone named Alex Haley, a black reporter.
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. A Brief History with Documents written by David Howard-Pitney is a great history book that gives us an entry into two important American thinkers and a tumultuous part of American history. This 207-pages book was published by Bedford/St. Martin’s in Boston, New York on February 20, 2004. David Howard-Pitney worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University in 1986, and that made him a specialist on American civil religion and African-American leaders ' thought and rhetoric (208). Another publication of Howard-Pitney is The African-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America.
Since Malcolm X was envious of Bimbi’s knowledge, he tried to imitate him by reading, but his limited amount of knowledge prevented him from fully grasping the what he read. He stated that, if it weren’t for his desire to learn, he would have given up on reading. His lack of knowledge and penmanship led him to buy a dictionary as well as some tablets and pencils so that he can improve his handwriting. Not knowing which words he needed to know, Malcolm X copied down each page and repetitively read his own handwriting out loud until he eventually wrote down every word in the dictionary. After studying every word, he was finally able to fully grasp what he was reading and read every chance he got.
. Malcolm X was born with the name Malcolm Little in 1925, his father was a baptist minister and his mother took care of him and his siblings. His father died when he was young in a street car accident after that his family was thrown into poverty. Him and his siblings went to foster care and live with realities.
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz after converting to the nation of Islam, was born on May 19tth, in 1925. Malcolm grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of eight kids where he experienced a horrific encounter with the notorious Ku Klux Klan organization at four years old because fis father was a preacher that was an active member of a Universal Negro Improvement Association and a supporter of civil rights leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm’s father was later murdered by white supremacists and his mother was later admitted to a mental institution. Malcolm X was had become an orphan at an early age. In 1946, at age 20, he went to jail for robbery and breaking and entering.
If Malcom X was prohibited from practicing religion in prison it is almost likely that he would not be as influential or productive as he was during the civil rights movement. The Nation of Islam and his belief in Muhammad, gave him the grounded truth needed to prevail and inspire him on his influential journey. As he mentions in his autobiography , “Never in prison had I studied and absorbed so intensely as I did now under Mr. Muhammad’s guidance” (211). Since he was able to practice his religion he was able to deeply embed himself into the religion, gain a sense of purpose, and pave a way for his success. The religion itself promoted controversy and encouraged a “black community”, both ideas that Malcom X was known for pushing.
X, a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz, is set in many different places throughout the story and was during a time when many Americans experienced all of the hardship and struggle life can bring #1. In this story, there are many characters and places throughout the book that give the story life. The main character, Malcolm Little, moved to Lansing, Michigan in 1929, with his family, when he was four years old. During his time there, he was shown the awful side of life. His father died when he was about six years old, he had to steal food to live because his family was very poor, his mother was taken to a physic hospital, and he and his siblings were split up. In 1940, as a 15 year old, he decided he wanted to leave all of the horrible memories of
Malcolm X’s views on women during his lifetime can be interpreted differently, especially in the Autobiography of Malcolm X. His change in ideology and political growth greatly affected his opinions for women. This opinion was a greater newly found respect towards women compared to his earlier life. Malcolm X’s change and involvement in religion is what caused his dramatic shift in opinion.
Analysis for Learning to Read by Malcolm X Malcolm X, who used X to signify his lost African tribal name, was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. He stated in his excerpt “Learning to Read” from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, “[People] will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade” (Learning to read, X,3). Malcolm X was kicked out of the school after 8th grade, and went to the prison. He learned how to read in the prison. Ever since then, he started to read books and think about the fate of black people’s.
Malcolm X's "Literacy Behind Bars" is about the expansion of his world that provokes a burning passion within himself through the world of reading. While incarcerated, the author meets a man named Bimbi who leads the discussion with his stock of knowledge, prompting Malcolm X to further his skills in literacy. Taking small steps, he first broadens his vocabulary by reading alphabetically in the dictionary and copying pages. He reads aloud to himself until the words begin to stick with him. Not long after moves onto books, devouring them at a relentless pace, Malcolm X became so engrossed with reading that he begins breaking curfew rules just to continue reading by using the light outside of his cell.
Summary of "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X In his essay "Learning to Read" from the chapter "Saved" in Malcolm's Autobiography published in New York (Grove Press, 1965). Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska and his father was a political activist on behalf of Marcus Garvey. After he and his family moved to East Lansing, Michigan, where his father was killed and his mother placed in a mental institution. he became an orphan and ended up on the streets of Detroit where he was known as "Detroit Red".
