Malcolm X By Malcolm X Summary Sparknotes

Malcolm’s agenda in having this book published was to expose the white people of the cruel and unfair treatment towards blacks and minorities. After he found the truth about the history of whites and blacks, he decided to make it a life goal to share the truth he found. In prison, he found that the teachings of Eljiah Muhammad were what he wanted to follow. He believed the white men were devils and he eventually began to share the teachings of Muhammad to people around America. Malcolm X genuinely believed that there was no good in white men. He constantly referred to them as “white devils” because of their past treatment towards blacks like slavery. Even though slavery was abolished during Malcolm X’s time there were still segregated places
Often times there aren’t chapters and chapters about African Americans and their culture but rather white culture and their history. Malcolm X noticed this and wanted other brainwashed black people to know the truth and evils that lurked in the past.
He repeats concepts like white men raping generations of black women, the inequalities between skin color, and unfair treatments towards black people. He’s basically tired of white men using blacks and minorities to build their country and wants to stand up to it. By sharing his own beliefs, he can reveal what he thinks he knows and gather people who also think alike to him or believe in what he says. He wants to rise up by having black people own community businesses and taking back community power. The autobiography was not written only to improve Malcolm X’s public image but to reveal his lowest moments and how he overcame them. This book shows specific memories of his horrific past and how he was treated by not only white people but blacks as well. Some people think of him as a violent version of Martin Luther King Jr. and this book opens up a reader’s mind of his past experiences and what he went through