The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By (Author) Alex Haley
By (author) Malcolm X
Introduction by Paul Gilroy
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
11th May 2001
1st March 2001
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences
Ethnic studies
Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action
323.119607302
Paperback
528
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 25mm
367g
By the time of his tragic murder in 1965, Malcolm X was world famous as the "angriest black man in America". From hustling, cocaine addiction and armed violence in the ghettos of Harlem he had turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the fervour of the Black Muslims. Speaking out to millions of oppressed blacks, he brought new hope and self-respect. But was Malcolm X, in the words of one critic, merely a racist preaching hatred or was he a founding father, whose passionate eloquence has helped to nourish the modern anti-racist movement This book attempts to answer this question by looking at the life and work of Malcolm X.
Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965.