The Many Subjects Malcolm X Had During His Reinvention

Malcolm Little was better known as Malcom X, he was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha's University Hospital, in Nebraska, and was the son of Louise and Earl Little. Malcolm was a very smart boy that grew up in Lansing, Michigan, he went through so much in life, starting with his father’s death, his mother psychological problems, and poverty. He eventually overcame all of this to become one of the most famous African American figures in history. Louise and Earl Little were both Garveyites, and of course that made Malcolm a Garveyite as well. Marcus Garvey played a big part in the lives of Louis and Earl, and years later, it even play a big role on Malcolm's life as a kid and adult. Including believing in Pan-Africanism, “the belief in Africa’s ultimate

Explains the many subjects Malcolm had during his reinvention, describing the multiple characters he went through over the years, while tracing his religious beliefs, along with politics beliefs. The biography utilizes various type of sources, like letters, interviews from Malcolm’s relatives, diaries, and even from the F.B.I. The book does not exactly provide much revelation into why Malcolm became such an African American Figure. But it does embrace the opportunity to learn more about the truth behind the myths that were in Malcolm’s

A smart boy who became a criminal, starting from stealing from small convenience stores, all the way to selling drugs and becoming a self-taught young boy. “Without a guide or mentor, Malcolm fashioned his own version of adult behavior whole cloth, learning to present himself as being older, more sober and more worldly than he really was (pg. 42).” Malcolm later becomes obsessed with racial politics in America, he confronts various types of racism, when a group of whites murder his father and when whites take his mother into a Psychiatry center. Even though Malcolm does not shows his racism towards whites at the beginning, it all leads to his anti-views for whites and how he feels towards them. When he is put in all white junior high school, he tries to fit in but his white teachers and classmates make it difficult for him to learn and decides to drop out. After this he decides to move to Boston, but when he gets there he notices countless whites showing racism towards blacks, he then found himself frustrated because he felt he couldn’t do anything about