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MALCOLM X, THE PRISON YEARS: THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF FORMAL EDUCATION Jed B. Tucker There are many good reasons why Malcolm X’s legacy has outlived his short life.

Though his life as a public figure lasted just thirteen years before an untimely death—murdered by gunfire at 39 years old while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom—his ideas about achieving racial justice remain among the most influential of any thinker or leader before or since.

He is arguably responsible for giving birth to the movements for black pride and Black Power. Perhaps even more memorable than the challenging and powerful ideas he advanced, it was Malcolm’s literary style in the fight against racism—both in speech and writing— that make him an entirely unique figure among contemporary or subsequent civil rights leaders.

This is why Ossie Davis presciently predicted over fifty years ago that despite the many enemies his fiery and controversial rhetoric produced, Malcolm X would b