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Malcolm X

It was even harder to try to discipline the kids without the father there to enforce the punishments. The welfare department began to take care of the family by providing them with food and clothes. This had both a negative and positive effect on the family by the people trying to provide for the well-being of the family, but it also tore the family apart.As a result, Malcolm was placed into a detention home and finally went along to live with his half sister Ella in Boston. Malcolm had an teacher whom also had a impact upon his life. This teacher was Mr. Ostrowski, Malcolm's English teacher. Malcolm's future career plans was to become a lawyer. The teacher was very surprised that this was something that Malcolm wanted to pursue and he told Malcolm to be realistic and that being a "nigger" that it will never happen. He told Malcolm that since he was so good with his hands, that Malcolm should try carpentry shop work. Malcolm knew that the teacher meant well, but impacted his life negatively. Prior to entering prison, Malcolm occupations included being a shoe shiner, working at a store serving drinks and ice cream, at the railroad as a Dover Street Yard Loader, and a "fourth cook" and waiter. The incident that led Malcolm going to prison was burglarizing a house that belong to an older white couple, hustling money and drugs, and messing around with a white woman. At that time they were very strict with interracial couples interrelating with one another. So they put him in jail because of it. At this time Malcolm was not quite 21 yet.While in prison, Malcolm's siblings introduced him to the Nation of Islam, with the most impact coming from his younger brother Reginald. This introduction became the rest of Malcolm's life. But impacted it in a positive way. Because of Malcolm not completing school, he enhanced most of his education in prison. That is why he is considered to most people as being an self-educated man.Malcolm...

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