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On the basis of his several meetings with Malcolm X, Hakim decided to dedicate his life to the implementation of Malcolm's teaching. Released on parole in April of 1968. Hakim returned to St. Louis with the hope of establishing a community program there geared to the needs of black...
The delivery was slow and not without complications. It began in 1955 when Hakim along with two other cons organized an art class. "That was the transitional point. That was the point of moving from that rancid cancerous feeling about white folks to the point of starting to see myself...
This emerging pride in being black was reflected in changes in the life-style of Hakim and other cons at Jeff City. "They feed a lot of starch and pork in prison. Now anybody that knows anything about diet knows what that does to your body. So we began to...
For Hakim and many of the other black inmates, this new pride in blackness was related to their involvement in Islam and their subsequent discovery of aspects of black history that had not been a part of the education they had received in the public schools. This discovery awakened in...
This coming together of the younger black cons at Jeff City did not fail to meet with substantial opposition from prison authorities. "Antagonisms began to develop: because it was hard for them Southerners to concede that the black man does not necessarily want to integrate with him, see. And the...