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- Malcolm quit smoking and gambling and refused to eat pork in keeping with the Nation’s dietary restrictions. In order to educate himself, he spent long hours reading books in the prison library, even memorizing a dictionary. He also sharpened his forensic skills by participating in debate classes.
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Malcolm X is a fascinating person to approach as an educational thinker – not because he was an academic or had any scholastic achievements but as an example of what can be achieved by someone engages in ‘homemade’ or self-education.
As the nation’s most visible proponent of Black Nationalism, Malcolm X’s challenge to the multiracial, nonviolent approach of Martin Luther King, Jr., helped set the tone for the ideological and tactical conflicts that took place within the black freedom struggle of the 1960s.
3 days ago · Malcolm X (born May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died February 21, 1965, New York, New York) was an African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and Black nationalism in the early 1960s.
His early education as a child was based largely on teaching methods and learning styles that differed as he aged and became an adult. Knowles’ (1999) theory of andragogy generally explains Malcolm’s adult learning as being different from his learning as a child.
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This article focuses on Malcolm X's critique of the education of people of African descent in the United States from the time of his leadership within the Nation of Islam, until his assassination in 1965.
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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement.
The untold story of how Malcolm pursued education in prison is also the story of how tens of thousands of prisoners have managed to access higher education for the first time in their lives, and to realize their latent intellectual talents by tak-
