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Malcolm X And Silent Gesture

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X written by Malcolm X and Silent Gesture by Tommie Smith both cover the same topics, racism, poverty, and injustice. However are these two books as alike as we think? While these books cover the same topics they experience and handle these problems in very different ways.
First of all Malcolm X experiences racism and poverty at a very young age when his family and him were forced to move a countless amount of times and when his dad was inevitably shot. From that moment on his life was never the same. Nobody ever truly accepted him or his family, there were few African Americans where he lived. All the black kids went to the same school basically cut off from the rest of the town. His mother slowly began losing

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