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I'm reading Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, and early in the book, it talks about how Malcolm was quite a doog student in his early days and got good grades, and even had dreams of becoming a lawyer, before a school teacher of his told him something along the lines of, "A Negro can't become a lawyer." This eventually marked his downward slide, which eventually lead to him becoming a criminal and going to jail, joining the NOI, and everything that fallows.

If Malcolm avoids this teacher, would he be able to become a lawyer? Assuming he did, would he still become involved in the Civil Rights Movement, albeit on a different path? Might he still become involved in Islam and Pan-Africanism? How would the NOI develop without Malcolm as one of their foremost Ministers?
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