How Did Malcolm And Stokely Influence Early Activism

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To what extent the early life trajectories of Malcolm and Stokely influenced the path their early activism took becomes clear when reading their biographies. While both men were shaped by a great variety of intellectual and personal influences, their coming of age in a deeply racist society, particularly when it comes to a nurturing and reassuring social and educational environment, that helped them to develop a positive attitude about themselves. Stokely followed his parents to the United States at age eleven, after having lived most of his early years with his grandmother in Trinidad. In New York, he shortly resided in Harlem before his parents moved to a predominantly White neighborhood in the Bronx. Returning to Harlem on a regular basis …show more content…
Malcolm was also shaped by a number of intellectuals and public figures. His earliest activist experience came to an abrupt end with the untimely death of his father. After this traumatic experience, his family was soon after torn apart, exposing him to a predominately White social environment. Consciously or not, most of White people had a clear idea as to how Malcolm’s life had to look like. Hence, after years of direct contact with his parents’ activism in the UNIA, their emphasis on taking pride in their racial heritage, Malcolm had few chances to reconnect with this heritage and the positive images of Blackness that it conveyed until he met his half-sister Ella and decided to live with her in Boston’s famous Roxbury district. While Malcolm’s search for ideological guidance was also partially driven by the need to have a father figure after a long time of autodidactic studies and rhetorical practice in Norfolk Prison, the Nation of Islam. In addition, the guidance of Elijah Muhammad also provided him with an outlet to
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