Rajiv, 1992, p. 87). He tried to socialize with the wealthy blacks of the Roxbury section of Boston but found that they held many white values that he could not assume.
During this time period he 1ated a white woman, Sophie, bought a zoot suit, a racist image which had become a status symbol for blacks, and had his hair straightened. He used cigarettes, liquor and reefers. As he was not comfortable with the Roxbury blacks, he found himself gravitating to Harlem where he stumbled into a life of hustling. He worked on the railroad where he learned that he could make a tremendous amount of money catering to the white man's need to feel obsessively important. In his effort to completely resist white oppression, he drif1ed into criminality and ended up in prison.
Finally, he was sent to Roxbury, Massachusetts to live with his half-sister, Ella. His autobiography relates the details of his life and his experiences in the ghettoes in Boston, New York, and other eastern cities. In 1946, Malcolm X was sent to prison. While in prison, he became a member of the Nati
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