All should study the journey of Malcolm X's life because it gives great insight into one of America's great leaders. The struggles he had as young black boy and the influences he got there. To his teenage years where he developed most of his street smarts and learned how people really worked. Also his autobiography shows how for some people prison can teach and really help people to rehabilitate their lives. Then how Malcolm finds a way out in his new found faith in Allah. The autobiography also shows how Malcolm sees the true light of the Muslim reli

Harlem, New York was where Malcolm got his hustling almost down to perfection. This is where he seen even more how all the white people wanted to be where all the blacks were. Malcolm was well respected in Harlem and he always tried to get as much street knowledge as possible. He would talk to the prostitutes who would tell them way men went and how women wanted to be treated. He also refined his hustling game to almost perfection. This is also the place where Malcolm met Sammy the pimp. This is another big influence on his life; he also took Malcolm under his wing much like Shorty did in Boston. When Malcolm got into a dispute with West Indian Archie, is what basically pushed Malcolm out of Harlem. This was a big event because soon after Malcolm got into probably his most illegal activity with Shorty and Sophia. That activity soon got Malcolm in prison, and that is where he turned his life in another direction.

The most important influence in Malcolm's life, by far was being introduced to the Muslim faith by his family. The religion went so well with Malcolm because of his experiences with the white race. The letters from Elijah Muhammad just caught Malcolm by his soul and just pulled him in the religion, being one of it's most important followers. What ever Elijah Muhammad said Malcolm did, he did not even question Elijah's removal of Reginald from the National of Islam. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X writes that "I was his most faithful servant, and I know today that I did believe in him more than he believed in himself." (242).

At first Malcolm grows up as a typical black child, but soon his life changes with some of the most terrible things that can happen to a young boy. I think one of the most influential things that happened to Malcolm is when his father is killed. Not only is this very terrible to a any young boy, but it is the way that his father is killed and by whom is killed that makes the most influence. Malcolm's father was a Baptist minister and an organizer for the Marcus Aurelius Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association. When Malcolm used to go with his father to the meetings that his father threw for the people, I think that Malcolm took a lot of what his father did to what he did and how he influenced later in his own life. An example of this is in The Autobiography of Malcolm X where Malcolm says "but still the image of him that made me proudest was his crusading and militant campaigning with words of Marcus Garvey." (9). Malcolm's father leaving him was very influential because he never had that guidance that a father gives his children, but more importantly that his father was killed by the white Black Legion. The Black Legion was a hateful group much like the Ku Klux Klan, but they wore black robes instead of white robes.

Shorty, I think had one of the strongest influences on Malcolm's life. Sho

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