“When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return” (Douglass, pg 115). This passage shows that even though his mistress stopped his education, he persisted in becoming literate. Malcolm X was a public speaker and a civil rights activist in the 1900s. Even though he went to school, education for African-Americans at the time could hardly be counted as one compared to education for white people. In his autobiography, he writes about his time in prison.
They would always ask the question” Who is my Mother?” They see it as black men are just number, because we will not think for we are educated ourselves as men. The number is when you are locked up and they call you by your last name and you have to give them a number for your identity. When will you learn our young men, When will you learn? The music gets them through the pain and heart ache they feel, when they are in the white man system. This is what it is.
Also, Grant used to be a very hostile man and he didn't care for anything but from visiting Jefferson he started to care about his life and the things in it, he dedicated his whole self to helping Jefferson become a man and he would get into arguments defending his choices with his aunt even if she was very important to him and they never fought. This is greatly shown when Grant is on a visit with Jefferson along with his aunt, Emma and the reverend Grant talks to Jefferson and tells him how he needs him and how he is someone who can do so much while he cant, then he began to cry. This shows how Grant wants to make a change in his life. Grant is a person who goes from being miserable and only cares for himself into someone who can love other things in life and fights for
Whites did not allow blacks to have the flexibility they wanted because they did not want blacks to benefit themselves from publication. The report also highlighted writers that before this provision had not been discussed in any of my high school classes. Although, one thought that writers such as, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, two powerful young ladies during the nineteen-century that brought about the great work for the society. For example, during that time they both were able to published several novels and poetry. However, later they both where awarded, The National American Book Award for their hard work, enthusiasm and their potential, so the black community voices can be heard.
When he escaped slavery and learned to read he felt that it gave him hope and freedom. By learning to read he became the leader of the abolitionist movement, known for his oratory and antislavery writings. He challenged himself to set the goal to read, wanting to improve; it wasn’t an easy task and he often felt like giving up. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free” (Douglass). If he’d done so he may never have been the first African American nominated for vice president of the United States.
In prison when Malcolm begins to study the nation of Islam he says, “I have to admit a sad, shameful fact. I had so loved being around white man that in prison I really disliked how Negro convicts stuck together so much. But when Mr. Muhammad’s teachings reversed my attitude toward my black brothers, in my guilt and shame I began to catch every chance I could to recruit for Mr. Muhammad”(Malcolm X, 185). Malcolm is describing how his views about assimilation changed when he became a member of the nation of Islam. Before Malcolm believed that assimilation was the easiest way for black men to become free because he believed if he assimilated with white men he would be accepted into their society and as a result become free from racial prejudice.
The ability to read and write awoke something inside of him that gave him homemade education. Malcolm X was sensitive to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that were afflicting the black face in America. Books was Malcolm X life he said you never catch him without a book. Malcolm X was always studying something so he can help the next black man. Malcolm X spent the rest of his life reading books.
Richard Scigarjovs AFR 2612 / 7894 Final Examination Before i came to AFR2612 the only thing i knew was what was tought to in public schools. I never thought about African relegion or philosophy. This course has given allot to think about, philosophy is such a general term that to pick it out of a completley difrent civilization is not so easy. Learning from a difrenet perspective gave me a better understanding than whats taught in public schools. After readin articles and stories like "The concepts of time" by Mbiti, "The racial contract" by C.W.
In fact, Blacks were denied education. It was not until after the Civil War that Black people began confronting the issue of illiteracy. In modern day society blacks have low test scores. The ability to articulate words the same as educated Anglo-Saxons has bridged a wedge in recognizing written words. The Black community, as well as teachers needs to understand, that although they have come far from slavery the English patterns learned created a new dialect amongst the African
In a sense, he wants to liberate them from the limitations education imposes for the minority groups. African Americans are blind-folded and oblivious to their history, and are still grasping for what should already be naturally theirs, the right of equal opportunity to life. As Malcolm X talks about his own experience attaining the wealth of knowledge he has gained from reading books, he also succeeds in getting his point of view across to the reader