Malcom X Summary

Malcolm Xs prison house Education Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister who, as a teen, spent nigh of his time hustling people and getting into trouble. This presently landed him in prison. During his prison sentence he became self-educated, which led him to be an devise speaker, to discover the true history of African American slaves, and to constitute a strong advocator of human rights. Malcolm Xs A Homemade Education, starts off in a soft and console tone. X uses a persuasive style narrative from the Autobiography of Malcolm X to share his story.By the end of the essay his tone has pitchd to a more smouldering and demanding style. While in prison, X explains how he began writing letters to Mr. Elijah Muhammad, a Muslim leader, tho, not being able to write in an articulate manner, X began getting frustrated because he could not express what he wanted to say. He excessively states that he could not keep a conversation with his prison friend Bimbi or even underst and the books he read because of his lack of cognition.X says that he got a hold of a dictionary and began to copy word for word everything, learning more words and what they meant. He also says went to the prison library and read books almost science, history, and slavery. X was most inspired by Mr. Muhammads teachings. X explains that in one of Mr. Muhammads teachings, Mr. Muhammad stressed how history had been blanchedned, in other words, that black history was left(a) out of history books (95). He says he immediately began to search in the library for books that would inform him about black history.He says he read umteen books about black history and the early struggles for freedom. X states he volition never forget how shocked he was when he read about the brutality of slavery or the illustrations of black slave wo hands being fix up and beaten, children being taken away from families, and dogs hunting down slaves. X explains how he read books about the histories of vari ous nations and learned that the white men had made all non-white people suffer, especially in India and China.He explains how the British white man controlled much of India and how people of India refused to obey orders and were beaten and killed. X also explains the Opium War in China and that some observers in China micturate reported that the world had never known such a detest campaign as is now going on in this non-white soil (98). Reading about the various histories of the world, X found a putting surface theme white men were not liked by many a(prenominal) civilizations. X states that he never knew that reading in prison would change the course of his life.He says his homemade education has given him more than a college stratum could ever give him and that it is worth more than a college education because it is knowledge that no one can take away from him. Malcolm X states he has learned a lot from his reading about black history, he stresses that black men should not only fight for civil rights, but they need to think bigger and win their human rights. Works Cited X, Malcolm. A Homemade Education. The Conscious Reader. Ed. Caroline Shrodes, Michael Shugrue, Marc DiPaolo, Christian J. Matuschek. Glenview, IL Pearson Education, 2011. 92-100. Print.