The biography of malcolm x book
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The Book Corner: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X is a brilliant, sometimes chilling first-person account of one of the most influential figures of the American civil rights movement.
Some of the book’s events seem right out of a weekly action drama on cable or Netflix, but the trials and tribulations that Malcolm X faced in his life were very much real. The fact that it is all laid bare and told so candidly is what makes it stand out from other autobiographies of historical figures.
Malcolm X told his story to Alex Haley, the renowned author most known for ’s number one best seller “Roots,” in a series of 50 interviews between and , the year of Malcolm&#;s assassination.
The book is written in a unique first-person confessional narrative format. I felt as if Malcolm X was sitting directly across from me at a table, telling his story to me in painstaking detail, reliving his mistakes, his triumphs, and the tragic end t
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Undoubtedly one of the most filling books I’ve read all year.
It starts simply, with solid, familiar flavors, something like a brandy old-fashioned complete with fruit decorations, and a little bowl of candied pecans. Malcolm X begins by setting the scene of his parents, and his birth on May 19, It is one of the shortest sections, noting his father’s work as a traveling Baptist minister and his mother’s work making a home. His memories are informed by skin color, recalling his West Indian mother’s pale skin from her absent father and her favoritism towards her children who were darker. Preaching the words of Marcus Garvey, it wasn’t long before his fathe
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in , the civil rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one voice sounded more urgently, more passionately, than the rest. Malcolm X--once called the most dangerous man in America--challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it. And his enduring meddelande is as relevant today as when he first delivered it.
In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in , Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, agitator, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and reporter Alex Haley . In a unique collaboration, H