... in the city and before he even had any sense of the man he was to become. Red had his hands into everything, he was the product of a poor black ghetto. He pushed dope, played the numbers, peddled bootleg whiskey, and hustled. This is what he refers to as when he was lost and had no life, when he was in ... teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm furthered his education by reading anything he could get his hands on and wrote out every word and what it meant from the dictionary. Malcolm was released from jail in 1952. This is when he changed his name to Malcolm X. Malcom chang...

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