Imagine sitting in a cell, its dark. There’s just enough light to make out your hands in front of your face. Shouting, cursing, and noises fill the background as you try and focus on the book in front of you. The corridor light outside your cell just barely giving you enough light to make out the words on the page. That is what life was like in 1946 for Malcolm X, who just recently was imprisoned under grand larceny and breaking and entering charges serving a ten year sentence. Discovering himself to be uneducated Malcolm X Practiced his reading and writing day and night for hours on end. Malcolm X acknowledged that “…months passed without me even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life” ().
