I read this in high school and yeah, the "combination of curiosity and willingness to change his mind" was the part that really stuck with me long after, with his constant searching. I definitely thought about his prison reading the one time I volunteered at this place that sent books to prisoners who'd sent letters, since we got briefed about restrictions before we went off fulfilling their requests. (And then the folks there very much encouraged us bending those restrictions, heh.) Has there been a big change in prison libraries themselves?
I also read Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, which I think took a more skeptical look at Malcolm X's narrative about his criminal youth, but honestly the main thing I remembered from it was how often FBI files on Malcolm were used as a source.
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Re: addendum: misc thoughts on the autobiography of malcolm x
Date: 2022-02-05 03:03 am (UTC)I also read Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, which I think took a more skeptical look at Malcolm X's narrative about his criminal youth, but honestly the main thing I remembered from it was how often FBI files on Malcolm were used as a source.