Education in "Up from Slavery" and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X ''
Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery ” and Malcolm X’s reader autobiography “ The Autobiography of Malcolm X '' are both autobiographies from influential figures in the context of the Black Power and Civil Rights movement. However, the characters in both stories have distinct differences in their political and racial beliefs. These differences in attitudes are apparent in their respective autobiographies (which I will write about), but one similarity in particular sticks out. This similarity is education. The characters in both "Up from Slavery" and “ The Autobiography of Malcolm X ' illustrate how education has shaped and initiated their life. With Booker T. Washington, education was the thing he wanted since he was a kid. In “ The Autobiography of Malcolm X", education became something that he discovered as an adult that ultimately transformed his viewpoints and attitudes later in life. In Malcolm X’s reader autobiography, the main character details h...
