... eighth grade. After dropping out of school, Malcolm moved to Boston with his sister Ella. She only told Malcolm two things when he arrived: not to hang out in the ghetto and to lock the door when he left. In a way, Malcolm was left on his own. Of course Malcolm didn"t listen; he was often in the ... ghetto. There was a pool hall in the ghetto that Malcolm frequented. At the pool hall, he met a guy named Shorty. Shorty and Malcolm became good friends. Malcolm became known throughout Boston as "Detroit Red" or "Red". Soon ... . Soon he began to correspond with Muhammad by mail. It was the...

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... to his defiant behavior. Malcolm's sister, Ella, from Boston, Massachusetts would frequently visit him and eventually took custody. In Boston, Malcolm was more attracted to the street life in the Ghetto surroundings rather than his sister's upper class society in Roxbury, a city in Boston. He eventually meets people who make a negative impact on his life there. He begins to search for ... ;Malcolm X." UXL 1). "This religious group encouraged education" ( 'Malcolm X." 1). He begins to read all the books he can find in the prison library and copied the dictionary word for word. After ...

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... 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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