Malcolm X Biography Essay

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Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was name Malcolm Little and “replaced his name with X, to represent his lost African tribal name” (577). His mother was managing the family of 8 children. His Father was a Baptist minister and a supporter of one of the Black Nationalists leader, Marcus Garvey. In 1929, Malcolm’s families Michigan house got burned to the ground. 2 years later, his fathers body was found lying across the ground. The police ruled both as accidents. I think how his father is/was and the police ruling both incidents helped shape him in who he was in the future. But several years after his father’s death, his mother suffered emotional breakdowns which caused her to be committed into a mental institution. Malcolm …show more content…
And when Malcolm said “If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading just satisfying my curiosity because you can hardly mention anything I’m not curious about”(581), that is showing what he was going through at that time and what was happening at that time. So I think he basically wanted to show the people who questioned his education and doubted him as well. This all “comes from his autobiography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), which he wrote with Alex Haley” (577). In which when he said “It had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, * when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to emulate him” (577), in context, he wanted to prove he could have the same skills has Bimbi. So by writing this, he is showing his skills to be greater than or equal to Bimbi. That he did this all on his own. That when he said “Where else but in a prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day” (581), that he was implying that putting him in prison back fired to whoever arrested him and convicted

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