Essays on The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

The autobiography of Malcolm X provides insight into the life of a man who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential civil rights activists in the United States. In his autobiography, it is apparent that Malcolm undergoes three keys states: the first stage reflects his early life, troubled youth, and struggle for identity; the second stage reflects his struggle to find God; and the third stage is his political work. In the course of the three life stages, Malcolm X held different convictions ranging from racial separatism to indifference in the later stages of his ...

Historical memory can be well understood as a collection of information representing the past, which is shared by a specific group of people or community. People have a tendency of communicating about collective and historical memory by relying on the individual memory. To some extent, an individual’s memory of their experience and life gives them the sense of their origin and what they are, and guides them in making decisions about their future. The collaboration between journalist Alex Haley and Malcolm X led to the publication Malcolm X’s autobiography in 1965. The autobiography was co-authored by Alex Haley basing on a ...

Malcom X was an African American Muslim male who converted to the Muslim faith later in life. He was steadfast in his beliefs and relished in sharing them with others. He enjoyed passing his knowledge on to the young and old, the dark and the fair. However, earlier in his days as a Muslim, he had yet to make the traditional pilgrimage known as Hajj. As he grew to know more about it, he began wanting to make the pilgrimage. Though it became evidently clear that he was unfamiliar with any of requirements to make this pilgrimage, including how to ...

Introduction

Malcolm X was initially known as Malcolm Little at birth in Omaha Nebraska, on 19th May 1925. However, he changed the slave name ‘Little’ and adopted X a representation of unknown when he joined the ‘Nation of Islam’. His father was Reverend Earl Little and was a Baptist Minister and also served as an organizer for Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement, which was a black separatist association in the early 1920’s. His civil rights activism against white supremacy prompted numerous death threats forcing relocations when Malcolm was very young. However, he was later killed when Malcolm was thirteen years. After the ...

Education in the broad sense refers to the process though which people acquire necessary skills to survive in life. For most people, education occurs through experiences that have affirmative effects on how individuals think, feel and act. This essay discuses how education process influenced the thinking of Malcolm X as documented in the excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X in an essay titled “Learning to Read” and life Mike Rose in the narrative “I Just Want to Be Average”. In the narrative “I just want to be Average “, Rose examines his past schooling experience and how his ...