A brilliant, painful, important book.” The strength of his words, the power of his ideas continue to resonate more than a generation after they first appeared. I mean, I was reading a lotlike, for example, when I was in high school, I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as well as Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice. An established classic of modern America, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was hailed by the New York Times as “Extraordinary. Here, the man who called himself “the angriest Black man in America” relates how his conversion to true Islam helped him confront his rage and recognize the brotherhood of all mankind.

Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. Though at times self-aggrandizing, Malcolm X tells of his extraordinary transformation from a boy whose father was murdered by white supremacists to a young scam artist and drug dealer in Harlem, New York to a self-taught scholar in prison to a prominent leader in and minister for the Nation of Islam and then finally, to a man transformed by his trip to Africa and to Mecca and marked as a threat by the Nation of Islam leaders. The Autobiography is told through the first-person voice of Malcolm X with added content and narrative provided by Alex Haley. Written by Alex Haley, who had conducted extensive audiotaped interviews with Malcolm X just before his assassination in 1965, the book gained renown as a classic work on black American experience.

Biography of the American black religious leader and activist who was born Malcolm Little, published in 1965.

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