The Autobiography Of Malcom X's Autobiography Of Malcolm X

autobiography. He also illustrates his early experiences of segregation, as early as before he was born: “When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up at our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night...The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we had better get out of town because ‘the good Christian people white people’ were not going to stand for my father’s ‘spreading trouble’ among the ‘good’ Negroes of Omaha with the ‘Back to Africa’ preaching’s of Marcus Garvey.” ( The Autobiography of Malcolm X,with Alex Haley 1-2)

In 1929, members of a group white racists burned the house of the Littles to the ground and two years later his father was murdered. In addition,

Unlike Dr. Martin King who made few white friends while attending Atlanta’s Black grade schools and Morehouse College . Malcolm X faced his early situation of racial segregation during his education at school. In his autobiography, Malcolm X narrates his experience with his teachers and how he felt towards the history class where he was told of how uncivilized his race was. These scenes of racial discrimination deeply affected his childhood during his early years of education. In the following example, Malcolm X explains the acts of segregation of blacks in schools and how it affected young African American

Williams was a great one for “nigger” jokes. One day during my first week at school, I walked into the room and started singing to the class, as a joke ‘Way down yonder in the cotton field, some folks say that a nigger won’t steal.’ Very funny. I liked history, but I never thereafter had much liking for Mr. Williams. Later, I remember we came to the textbook section on Negro history. It was exactly one paragraph long. Mr. Williams laughed through it practically in a single breath, reading aloud how the Negroes had been slaves and then they were freed, and how they were usually lazy and dumb and shiftless. He added, I remember, an anthropological footnotes his own, telling us between laughs how Negroes feet was so ‘Big’ that when they walk, they don’t leave tracks, they leave a whole in the ground.” (The Autobiography of Malcolm X,32 )

Malcolm X’s encounter with his English teacher became a major turning point of his life (Cone 45) , not only, Malcolm X did not have a clear sense of his identity, Cone suggested that he was not even in a supportive environment where he could search for it and fight openly against others who denied him that right. It represented the end of his attempt to become integrated into a white society. Malcolm X believed that no matter what he did he would