https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr Malcolm X en-us 2019-11-12 19:48:00 UTC 2025-10-16 17:30:19 UTC hello@padlet.com willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433292197 At age four, Malcolm X awoke to find that his house was burning down. His mother barely got him and his siblings out before the house collapsed. The house had been set ablaze by a white hate group. 
"My father had shouted and shot at the two white men who had set the fire and were running away. Our home was burning down around us." (p. 3)]]> 2020-01-18 19:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433292197 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433293325 There would be constant arguing between Malcolm X's parents. His father would sometimes beat his mother when she told him he was wrong. His father would also beat any of the children that broke his rules, except Malcolm.]]> 2020-01-18 19:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433293325 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433294182 When Malcolm was six, his father, after getting mad at his mother, stormed out of the house. While out, he was attacked and murdered.
"It was morning when we children at home got the word that he was dead. I was six." (p. 10)

]]> 2020-01-18 19:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433294182 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433295910 Malcolm was sent by state Welfare to live with a family, the Gohannases, that were friends of his family. The state Welfare people had sent him to live with the Gohannases because of his recent bad behavior and his widowed mother's difficulty in supporting all eight of her children.]]> 2020-01-18 19:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433295910 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433296717 Eventually, Malcolm's mother, under too much stress to bear, broke down. She was taken to a mental hospital, and her children were sent to live all over the place with numerous families.
"Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo." (p. 21)]]> 2020-01-18 19:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433296717 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433298782 Malcolm continued to behave badly when he was living with the Gohannases, and so he was sent to a detention home and reform school.]]> 2020-01-18 20:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433298782 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433299692 After briefly leaving the detention home to live with another family, Malcolm moved in with Ella, who was the grown daughter of Malcolm's father's first marriage.
"Not saying why, I told Ella that I wanted to come there and live.
I don't know how she did it, but she arranged for official custody of me to be transferred from Michigan to Massachusetts..." (p. 39)]]> 2020-01-18 20:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433299692 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433300644 This is one of the most important things about Malcolm's life. Living with Ella, he met Shorty, a black musician who introduced him to dancing and parties and zoot suits. Sammy, another black man, was a pimp, burglar, and drug dealer who led Malcolm to becoming a drug dealer himself. Malcolm became addicted to drugs and was always being hunted by the police, especially when Sammy dragged Malcolm and Shorty into burglary.]]> 2020-01-18 20:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433300644 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433302401 After making a mistake in covering up evidence in a robbery, Malcolm is ambushed by cops. Through Malcolm, the cops arrest Shorty as well.
"Then, holding my gun in his hand, he signaled. And out from where they had been concealed walked two other detectives. They'd had me covered." (p. 152)]]> 2020-01-18 20:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433302401 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433305896 Malcolm and Shorty are both sentenced to 10 years in prison.]]> 2020-01-18 21:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433305896 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433305970 While Malcolm was in prison, his family had all converted to the Nation of Islam. They wrote to Malcolm about Islam, visited him, and converted him to Islam.
"Later I would learn, when I had read and studied Islam a good deal, that, unconsciously, my first pre-Islamic submission had been manifested. (p. 159)]]> 2020-01-18 21:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433305970 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433326978 Once his ten year sentence was up, Malcolm was released from prison.  ]]> 2020-01-19 01:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433326978 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433327018 Malcolm met the leader of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, at a Muslim rally. Muhammad called upon Malcolm and thanked him for his faith.
“He told them that I was just out of prison. ‘Every day,’ he said, ‘for years, Brother Malcolm has written a letter from prison to me. And I have written to him as often as I could’” (p. 201)]]> 2020-01-19 01:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433327018 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433327455 Malcolm’s brother Reginald, was banished from the Nation of Islam for not upholding the rules. He was shunned by all Muslims, including his family.]]> 2020-01-19 01:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433327455 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433334592 Malcolm founded many Muslim mosques and temples across America, and was one of the movement’s most influential and crucial figures. He spread Islam wherever he went, and converted hundreds to the religion.]]> 2020-01-19 02:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433334592 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433334789 A new Muslim named Betty joins Temple Seven. Malcolm doesn’t take an instant liking to her, just acknowledging her existence. ]]> 2020-01-19 02:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433334789 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433335295 However, Malcolm soon takes a liking to Betty. Elijah Muhammad likes her too, and Malcolm proposes over the phone. Betty says yes, and the two get married.
“Later that year, after Betty and I were married...” (p. 237)]]> 2020-01-19 02:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433335295 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433339029 After a controversial comment about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Elijah Muhammad forbids Malcolm X from speaking at any rallies or events for ninety days. Soon, Malcolm loses some faith in Elijah, believing that he was plotting to kill him. Elijah had also just broken one of Islam’s sacred rules by committing adultery.
“And then, as if Mr. Muhammad's voice came from afar, I heard his words: "I'll have to silence you for the next ninety days -- so that the Muslims everywhere can be disassociated from the blunder.’"  (p. 308)
“And then I knew. As any official in the Nation of Islam would instantly have known, any death-talk for me could have been approved of -- if not actually initiated -- by only one man.” 
(p. 309)]]> 2020-01-19 03:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433339029 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433343190 Malcolm decides that it would be smart to take a trip to Mecca. The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as Hajj, is a religious obligation that every Muslim fulfils. In Mecca, Malcolm changed. He came to believe that all people could be Muslims, not just blacks.]]> 2020-01-19 04:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433343190 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433344132 Malcolm X concludes his autobiography by summarising his thoughts about the future of Civil Rights and Islam, saying that things have much improved, but there is still work to be done. He predicts that he will soon die violently, but says that he believes his life has gone to good use.
“I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change hose societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America -- then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.” (p. 389)]]> 2020-01-19 04:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433344132 willieth002 https://padlet.com/willieth002/qih0lv1cyejr/wish/433347018 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/malcolm-x-autobiography-lost-chapter
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