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What is A Malcolm X Reader about?

"He was born hungry, and he grew up on the streets. Odd jobs and petty crime took him from Detroit to New York to Boston to a Massachusetts state prison. He was not yet twenty, but the journey that Malcolm Little had begun would take him eventually from incarceration to martyrdom." "A convert to Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam, Brother Malcolm would rise quickly in the Black Muslim ranks. He would spellbind thousands at NOI rallies. He would lecture at universities. He would debate at Oxford and travel in Africa. He would speak to the plight of twenty-two million African Americans. He would live dangerously, as he put it, and before he was forty he would be dead." "The pieces in this collection pause at some of the stages in Malcolm's journey from the turmoil of a troubled household in Omaha in 1925 to his assassins' gunfire at a rally in Harlem's Audubon Ballroom forty years later. In one selection, for instance, biographer Bruce Perry looks at Malcolm Little's early childhood from a psychological perspective. In another Malcolm himself writes about his conversion. Journalist Louis Lomax, in a candid 1963 interview, speaks with the dynamic Malcolm X of the Black Muslim movement,

Author

Malcolm X; David Gallen

Publisher

Carroll & Graf Pub

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786700783

Subjects

Political Science, Islam, Biography