 Famous civil rights activist Malcolm X was incarcerated at Norfolk, and he attended the prison school, where he furthered his education far beyond the eighth grade.The prison school and library are where he picked up his love of reading and where he learned how to articulate and debate his points in an argument, as he was part of the Norfolk Debating Society.He has even stated that he began his education here by copying down an entire dictionary word for word, learning the words and refining his handwriting the whole time.