I don't remember learning about Malcolm X in school at all (I'm Canadian and I didn't take American History, so my civil rights education wasn't very deep). I learnt about him from watching Malcolm X and then reading about him on the internet.

"Why do we need black history month?"

I vividly remember doing a whole chapter on MLK during black history month (because of course my shitty school only taught anything about black people during February) and we only got two paragraphs on Malcom X.

Who was George Washington Carver?
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Who was Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.