Aad 160 Book Report: The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

Organized into six topical groups, the author did an excellent job in comparing and contrasting King and Malcolm’s views on subjects including integration, the American dream, means of struggle, and opposing racial philosophies that needless any improvement. An interpretive introductory essay, chronology, bibliography, document headnotes, and questions for consideration provide further pedagogical support for students. The author explains how Malcolm X came closer than any social reformer in history to embodying and articulating the totality of the African experience in America while Martin Luther King was not only the most important figure in American religious history in the 20th century, he was arguably its most brilliant

The house was burnt down on purposely by the Black Legion, Malcolm was only 4 when his family had to relocate, his family did relocate twice. Soon later Malcolm Little’s father (Earl Little) died after getting hit by a train car. The family thought it was more than an accident it was, they thought it was the Black Legion killing his father. The police later labeled the case as an accident.

At the time no one knew who caused the fire, but later on Malcom came to Conclusion that a white supremacy group was behind it all. Earl Little moved his family to East Lansing and built a new home there for him and his family to live. One day Louise woke up with a bad feeling about Earl leaving the house. She begged him not to go out that day but he insisted that

He had a strong background connection to the south, especially with his civil rights affiliation with a very long,dc lasting impact. Born and raised in Chicago was Emmett Till, but he has a strong connection to Mississippi and the south (Kolin). Though his mother was born in Mississippi, she grew up in illinois and had limited exposure to Mississippi. Till was just the same (Kolin). Yet they have relatives that live in the mississippi delta (Kolin), and he was visiting his uncle Mose Wright near Money, Mississippi(Kolin).

He finds another job washing windows near a Boston-Washing train then as a sandwich porter on a Boston-New York train. These jobs fail as well. Malcolm gets an opportunity in Harlem to work as a day waiter. He quickly adjust to the New York lifestyle and earns tips. Malcolm invest in lots of money gets involved in the gambling market.

For many African Americans, February 21, 1965, is engraved in their memory as profoundly as the assassination of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr is for other Americans. In the turbulent aftermath of his death Malcolm X's disciples embraced the slogan black power and elevated him to secular sainthood by tonight late 1960s he had come to embody the very idea of Blackness for an entire generation like web Dubois Richard Wright and James Baldwin he had denounced the psychological and social costs that racism had imposed upon his people he was also widely admired as a man of uncompromising action the polar opposite of the nonviolent middle-class oriented negro leadership that had dominated the Civil Rights Movement before him Malcolm was

Malcolm Little Born on May 19, 1925 was a little boy who lived in Omaha, Nebraska, but later on moving to Lansing Michigan. The reason why they moved to Lansing was because one night the Ku Klux Klan came to Malcolm house threatening to harm his father for spreading the Pan-African message of Marcus Garvey. His dad refuses to leave until Malcolm was born. When he was born, they finally decided to move to Michigan when they got there trouble seemed to follow. When they moved to Lansing they were already being harassed by the “ Black Legion”.

In 1937 his mother had a nervous breakdown and the kids were taken away from her. The children were spilt apart into different foster homes. Twenty four years later Malcolm and his siblings got their mother out of the mental

They left Omaha after Malcolm turned one because the areas Klu klux Klan members in the area set the families house down as a way to tell them to leave out of the area. After the KKK burned the house down the Little family moved to Lansing, Michigan in hopes to avoid the Klan members. Malcom's father wasn’t in the picture long due to him being ran over and murdered by KKK members in Langston. The family thought that they got away from racism and the KKK. After Malcolm’s father’s death the household change almost instantly.

Malcolm’s father was a follower of Marcus Garvey back to Africa movement. Consequently, Malcolm’s parent home was fired bombed for his father’s

By leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm created a hatred towards himself by the people he had taught and ministered for years; Malcolm’s separation from the NOI was the key factor in his assassination. Had he not left (or been removed from) the Nation, the hatred felt towards Malcolm would have stayed as petty jealousy from those Elijah trusted less and not have evolved into the actual hatred that caused Malcolm’s

This journal article belabours the point that is also a common theme in “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”: Malcolm’s changing views on civil rights. Again as a result of his tumultuous childhood because of the “white man”, Malcolm generalizes all white people as essentially haters of blacks because of the negative experiences he’s had with them and the tragic ways they treated him. But, as he grows older and matures, Malcolm has the eye-opening experience of seeing people of all colors worship next to each other. This is an interaction between blacks and whites that creates a positive environment as an outcome.

Malcolm lived a very rough life as a young adult. In Boston Malcolm quickly becomes involved in urban nightlife. Malcolm passed as much older than he actually was. He began to wear flashy clothes, gamble, drink,

Besides that, Malcolm X also intended to make his life’s account as proof of some social values so that his objective reader may see how in the society to which he was exposed as a black youth. Everything is changing. The only permanent thing on Earth is changes itself. Reading the book, following the series of changes he had underwent inspired me. “My life in particular never has stayed fixed in one position for very long” he said.

His teacher tells him that being a lawyer is too high of an ambition for him, even if he does have the best grades out of all of his classmates. His teacher proceeds to explain that it would be in Malcolm’s better interest to think about working with his hands as a carpenter. This is the first instance in which we see one person change another person’s life. Since this conversation was included in the