Malcolm X a strong leader for the Black Revolution learned a lot of valuable information through the people and the experiences he faced. These situations include his encounters with the famous jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald, his unforgettable prison experience and his adult pilgrimage to Mecca. Those situations helped shape Malcolm X into the proud and highly intelligent young man with a goal of self –identity for his people.
Malcolm X met many people in his lifetime, Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) being one of those people. Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, who was considered one of the greatest singers in the history of jazz. Fitzgerald received the name “first lady of song”(Ella Fitzgerald, Encarta), when she successfully brought jazz into the mainstream culture. Within the 60 year
While in prison he focused on life, and his sinful ways. He reviews his level of education and compared it to the homade education he had been using so much of in the past. He used the dictionary to help his penmanship and his simple English.
Malcolm’s first experience of learning was in the Norfolk Prison Colony.
Malcolm’s Pilgrimage after prison made him re-arrange his whole thinking pattern. This process caused him to face facts of life as a new experience and knowledge as they come. “During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eat from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug)- while praying with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of the blue, whose hair was the blondest of the blond, and whose skin was the w
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