https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy Made with panache en-us 2018-12-03 21:08:42 UTC 2024-07-18 00:21:12 UTC hello@padlet.com mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318322267 The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley]]> 2019-01-08 14:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318322267 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318424780 When Malcolm Little’s mother is pregnant with Malcolm, hooded Ku Klux Klan members break the windows of his family’s house in Omaha, Nebraska. The white supremacists’ target is Malcolm’s father, Earl Little, a tall, black Baptist preacher from Georgia, because he works for Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which supports the return of American blacks to Africa. Malcolm is Earl’s seventh and lightest-skinned child. He is the only son who escapes Earl’s beatings and gets to follow his father to UNIA meetings.¨ The Klu Klux Klan told the Little family we the good Christians.


]]> 2019-01-08 17:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318424780 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318431772 When the family moves to Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, another white supremacist group burns down their house. Malcolm says that watching his house burn taught him one of many early lessons about being black in America. He sees that success for blacks in Lansing means waiting tables or shining shoes rather than working in a respected profession and that the majority of black people are poor and jobless. After a white boy cheats Malcolm out of a hard-earned dollar, Malcolm realizes that the odds are stacked against blacks.¨ The detention home was where all ¨ bad¨ boys and girls go to to be disciplined¨. Referring to black people]]> 2019-01-08 17:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318431772 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318432579 Malcolm arrives in Boston looking like a country person without any sense of urban fashion. He lives with his half-sister, Ella, who encourages him to explore the city before tying himself down to a job. Malcolm quickly sees the difference between the pace and lifestyle of Boston and that of Lansing. He also sees a difference between the lifestyle of the middle-class blacks who, like Ella, live in the neighborhood of Roxbury Hill, and that of ghetto blacks.¨A Negro named Crispus Attucks,who had been the first man to die in the Boston Massacre¨.]]> 2019-01-08 17:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318432579 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318566398 Ella gets Malcolm a job as a clerk at a drugstore in Roxbury Hill. Malcolm hates the middle-class atmosphere, but one women named Laura, a studious of high school , stands out from the others. Once his friendship with her develops, Malcolm confesses to Laura his old dream of becoming a lawyer, which she encourages. Laura is an excellent dancer, but she has a protective grandmother, whom she must lie to and fight with in order to go out dancing. The second time Malcolm and Laura go dancing, they compete in a dance-off at the Rose land.¨ And then a free-lancing liny-girl I dance with before¨.]]> 2019-01-08 20:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318566398 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318568426
Malcolm finds a job washing dishes on a Boston–Washington train line and then selling sandwiches as a porter on a Boston to the center of New York´s train line. He is dazzled by the wealth and New York´s energy, especially Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom and Apollo Theater. After being fired for taking the aggressive performances he uses to sell sandwiches too far, he is thrilled to work as a day waiter at a Harlem bar called Small’s Paradise.¨ Some of the railroad cooks and waiters had told me to be very careful, because mugging, knifing and robberies went on every night¨.]]> 2019-01-08 20:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318568426 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318853426 With permanent employment, Malcolm moves to a rooming house run by prostitutes. Malcolm befriends the women and learns a great deal about the psychology of men from them. Sophia, who has married a white man, visits Malcolm regularly. At first, she balks at Malcolm’s living situation, but she soon befriends the prostitutes. Malcolm’s friends begin calling him “Detroit Red” because his hair is bright red. After referring an undercover military agent to a prostitute, Malcolm loses his job and can no longer visit Small’s. With the help of Sammy the Pimp, Malcolm begins to sell marijuana to New York’s jazz musicians.¨Every day, I would gamble all of my tips as high as fifteen dollars and dream of what would I do when I hit¨.]]> 2019-01-09 16:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/318853426 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/319039150 Malcolm makes a trip to Boston, where Shorty is trying to get his band off the ground. During this visit, Malcolm’s rendezvous with Sophia is more discreet than their previous encounters, partly because she is married and partly because World War II’s toll on the United States’ white population has increased popular fears about interracial romance. The draft board summons Malcolm. By dressing extravagantly and telling the army psychiatrist that he wishes to lead Southern blacks in murdering Southern whites, Malcolm evades the draft. ´The white I known love to run shoulders publicity with black folk in the after hours club an speakeasies¨.]]> 2019-01-09 22:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/319039150 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/319482867 Malcolm takes on a variety of odd jobs in Harlem. For six months he transports betting slips for the numbers lottery system. Then, after working in a gambling parlor, Malcolm works for a madam, steering white people from downtown to the various places where their elaborate sexual fantasies can be fulfilled. In 1945 Malcolm is accused of robbing a craps game run by Italian racketeers. He begins to feel tense just walking the streets of Harlem. He quits his steering job and begins importing bootlegged liquor from Long Island for a Jewish businessman.¨ For a hustler in our sidewalk jungle wold ¨face¨and ¨honor¨ was important¨.]]> 2019-01-10 21:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/319482867 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/319484273
In Boston, Shorty and Ella marvel at the transformed Malcolm, now edgy and foulmouthed from hustling. Malcolm takes a few weeks to unwind from the tension of his situation in Harlem, at first only sleeping, smoking marijuana, and playing records. Malcolm begins to do cocaine again and talks excessively to Shorty and Sophia about future plans. He remains close to Sophia, depending on her for money and marveling at how much abuse she takes. ¨I believed that a man should do anything that he was slick enough, or bad and bold enough, to do and that a woman was nothing but another commodity´´.]]> 2019-01-10 21:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/319484273 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/320112862
Malcolm’s time in Massachusetts state prison is a period of strong growth and religious upheaval. Suffering from drug withdrawal and a fierce temper, he is placed in solitary confinement and nicknamed “Satan.” He meets Bambi, a confident black prisoner whose speech commands the respect of guards and inmates alike. Under Bambi's instruction, Malcolm begins to think outside the hustler mindset of his youth. He makes use of the small prison library, refines his English, and channels his rage into reasoned argument. ¨I served total seven years in prison, being nutmeg and semi drug with drawl prison was cruel¨.]]> 2019-01-13 23:41:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/320112862 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/320112980
To improve his writing skills, Malcolm slowly copies out the whole dictionary longhand, starting with the word “aardvark.” With an expanded vocabulary, he begins to read thoroughly, staying up half the night to study in his cell. He says that reading awakens his “long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” Malcolm soon develops a system of beliefs that has Africa at its center. From reputable sources he learns that the first men and the great early civilizations were African, that the pharaohs were Africans, and that the great Western storyteller Aesop was an African. ¨The teachings of Mr. Muhammad stressed how history had been "whitened¨.]]> 2019-01-13 23:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/320112980 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/321320934 Elijah Muhammad needs ministers for his growing nation, so Malcolm X quits his job at the Ford Company and begins extensive training. During this time, Malcolm fully develops his rhetorical style. When Malcolm is ready, Elijah Muhammad sends him to Boston to aid in the founding of a temple there. Malcolm visits his old haunts and tries to convert Shorty, who loves white women and pork too much to be persuaded. Ella is amazed at Malcolm, and although she does not convert, she is happy to see he has changed. ¨Every time you see a white man think about the devil you´re seeing¨.

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In August 1952, the prison releases Malcolm on parole into the custody of his brother Wilfred. Malcolm buys a wristwatch, a suitcase, and a pair of glasses for his eyes. In Detroit, Malcolm instantly appreciates the warmth and order of Wilfred’s strictly Muslim household. The solidarity and austerity of his first Nation of Islam temple meeting excites Malcolm. In Chicago Elijah Muhammad publicly likens Malcolm to the biblical figure Job, inviting everyone to watch the strength of Malcolm’s faith now that the safety of prison is gone and he is back out among the temptations of the real world. ¨ Wilfred invited me to share his home, and gratefully I accepted. The warmth of a home and a family was healing change from the prison cage¨.]]> 2019-01-16 16:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/321322498 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/322439416
In 1957, after visiting the black-run Herald Dispatch in Los Angeles, Malcolm founds Muhammad Speaks, the Nation of Islam’s own newspaper. A surge of publicity comes in 1959, when a man named C. Eric Lincoln publishes a book called The Black Muslims in America and a program on the Nation called The Hate that Hate Produced airs on television. Both titles enrage Malcolm, who realizes that the media will spin everything for shock value.¨ Every Muslim happily anticipated that now,through the white man´s powerful communication media¨.]]> 2019-01-20 00:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/322439416 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/322439482 On the recommendation of the aging Elijah Muhammad’s doctors, the Nation buys Elijah Muhammad a home in Arizona, where he begins to spend most of the year. Elijah Muhammad’s geographical distance and diminished health, as well as the growing administrative demands of the Nation, lead Malcolm to make a greater number of decisions without notifying Muhammad. By 1963 both the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X are inundated with publicity.¨ Only a few of the letters fell into the ¨ Dear Nigger X¨ category, or the death threats. Most of mail exposed to me the white man´s two major dreads¨.

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Malcolm’s relationship to the Nation of Islam becomes more complex when Elijah Muhammad faces paternity suits from two temple secretaries.Malcolm pretends that he does not know about the allegations and changes his temple teachings to change the issue of the moral code. Eventually, however, he approaches Elijah Muhammad for advice. Elijah Muhammad compares himself to the great men of scripture whose accomplishments outweigh their occasional transgressions. ¨ I nineteen sixty-one, Mr. Muhammad´s condition grew suddenly worse. As he talked with me when visited him, when he talked with anyone, he would unpredictable begin to cough hard¨.]]> 2019-01-20 00:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/322439542 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323129106
Malcolm explains that every Muslim must, if possible, make a pilgrimage, or hajj, to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Malcolm has no trouble receiving financial backing from Ella, who has also withdrawn from the Nation of Islam. When Malcolm applies for a hajj visa, he learns that his status as a Muslim must be approved by Mahmoud Youssef Shawarbi, a Muslim United Nations advisor. ¨The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as Hajj, is religious obligatory that every orthodox Muslims fulfills, if human able, at least once in his or hers lifetime¨.]]> 2019-01-22 17:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323129106 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323279427 Malcolm learns that leaders and intellectuals of nonwhite nations are interested in the plight of American blacks. Malcolm flies to Lebanon, where he is warmly received. In Ghana, a high commissioner gives Malcolm ceremonial robes. Malcolm then visits Liberia, Senegal, and Morocco before returning home. In New York, reporters besiege him with questions that imply a connection between him and race riots erupting across the country. ´´ Prince Faisal, the absolute ruler of Arabia, had made me a guest in the stat and i was very honored¨.

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In Harlem Malcolm holds meetings for a new organization, the Organization for Afro-American Unity. He emphasizes its inclusiveness of people of any faith, though it excludes whites from membership. Malcolm believes that whites should change their own communities in separate organizations and that black people must unify before they band together with whites to fight racism. Malcolm returns to Africa and the Middle East for another eighteen weeks meeting with many world leaders.¨ Negroes-Afro Americans showed no inclination to rush to the United Nation and demand justice for themselves her in America¨.]]> 2019-01-23 01:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323281885 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323298768

]]> 2019-01-23 03:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323298768 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299138 2019-01-23 03:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299138 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299284 2019-01-23 03:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299284 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299382 2019-01-23 03:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299382 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299682 2019-01-23 03:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299682 mohamwar000 https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299794 Mr. Lemanski i know I´m suppose to have 26 post but i was doing post by chapter and the chapter had 19 chapters and i might have only 25 post instead of 26 because the shortness of the book.]]> 2019-01-23 03:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamwar000/c75mh9jszrwy/wish/323299794