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In Learning to Read , Malcolm X describes his plight with illiteracy , and it is a gripping tale . If you are a black man or a follower of the Elijah Muhammad , founder of the Nation of Islam

There is nothing more intriguing than the plight of a man struggling to rise from misfortune and to make himself better and more educated . The story of Malcolm X is interesting he turned the negative experience of imprisonment into what could have been the educational

opportunity of a lifetime for many , and he does view it as such . He achieved a level of intelligence on his own during his incarceration that many do not even acquire when studying in college . He was self motivated , and what he learned made him long to learn more however , his self education also produced an inflammatory view of the white man , one , which if he were college educated , he may not have acquired

In Learning to Read , one of the main reasons that Malcolm X states that he wanted to become literate was to be able to better express himself to Mr . Elijah Muhammad , his prophet in the study of the Nation of Islam . Muhammad 's teachings drove Malcolm to learn , but definitely guided his readings and his studies and the way that he interpreted what he read and what information he sought . He states , The teachings of Mr . Muhammad stressed how history had been whitened ' - when white men had written history books , the black man simply had been left out . Mr Muhammad couldn 't have said anything that would have struck me much harder (insert page . This statement is indicative of how Malcolm X guided his self education , what he sought to learn and how he sought to learn it - he desired only to learn what would enhance Muhammad 's teachings

With Muhammad 's anti-white message driving him , Malcolm devoured book after book , searching for what he calls the truth . You can hardly show me a black adult in America - or a white one , for that matter - who knows from the history books anything like the truth about the black mans ' role (insert page . While this may technically be true through his own admission , Malcolm X found plenty of literature on the subject . I took special points to hunt in the library for books that would inform me on details about black history (p

What he found , however , almost contrary to his previous statements were books available and studied at institutions of higher learning all across the United States of America : Durant 's Story of Civilization , H G . Wells ' Outline of History , and Gregor Mendel 's Findings in Genetics were among some of the more popular literature that Malcolm used to enforce his beliefs in the teachings of Elijah Muhammad , selectively choosing excerpts and chapters to fit his anti white agenda and beliefs

While it is quite spectacular that a man who could not read was able to...