Malcolm X Prison Studies

Malcolm X is a religious activist and civil rights leader who was imprisoned for a robbery in 1961. He saw how the prison system worked and one day, he decide, he wanted to learn how to read and write, so he found himself a dictionary and copied the words down to a tablet. Malcolm would read books at night, every 58 minutes. Every 59 minutes a guard would come. So he quickly went to his bed and faked slept until the guard left, then he would go back to reading and he would do this for 15 hours a week. Malcolm said he was more devoted and wanting to learn in prison, instead of going to a university or college.