Malcolm Little's Autobiography Of Malcolm X

Malcolm Little is one of the most understood civil rights activist to have ever lived. Malcolm

Little was a man who in order to understand and truly get we need to go back to the days of his early

life. Malcolm's life was surrounded by hate, grief, poverty, hustle, and most of all violence. Malcolm

wrote this autobiography to show his supporters, enemies, and the world exactly how he came to be.

Exactly what he had done, and the steps that led him to be the man we know as Malcolm X.

To me the most important sentence in the book comes from page 1. The sentence in itself shocks

the reader into knowing what kind of a life the author had. What kind of rough and violent life he had

to stand against. Malcolm

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Malcolm's family was pushed to the very edge by the white man and he explains exactly how it

happened as well. The white man was around to kick his family down his entire childhood. A white

man killed nearly half of the men on his father's side and the reason of his mothers light complexion

was the effect of a slave master raping a slave. When Malcolm was young, a man killed his father and

his after tied him to the railroad tracks to be run over. When Malcolm's mother had struggled to keep

the family together the government social workers tried to face the family against each together and

eventually, literally drove his mother insane. This is the life Malcolm had experienced before the age of 13.

Malcolm now had no parents and for the first time was alone. He lived with strangers who were

white although they treated him well he would've much rather had his parents back. He was at the top

of his class and well liked by everybody. He was a “good negro” which is a horrible thing to call

someone but that is what he was known as. When he visited his sister in Boston his life would take