The Autobiography of Malcolm XONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America. Praise for The Autobiography of Malcolm X “Extraordinary . . . a brilliant, painful, important book.”—The New York Times “This book will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle.”—I. F. Stone |
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Page 18
... heard was sick , carrying them something . She was the one who , years later , would tell me something that I remembered a long time : “ Malcolm , there's one thing I like about you . You're no good , but you don't try to hide it . You ...
... heard was sick , carrying them something . She was the one who , years later , would tell me something that I remembered a long time : “ Malcolm , there's one thing I like about you . You're no good , but you don't try to hide it . You ...
Page 22
... heard them call my mother “ crazy " to her face for refusing good meat . It meant nothing to them even when she explained that we had never eaten pork , that it was against her religion as a Seventh Day Adventist . They were as vicious ...
... heard them call my mother “ crazy " to her face for refusing good meat . It meant nothing to them even when she explained that we had never eaten pork , that it was against her religion as a Seventh Day Adventist . They were as vicious ...
Page 33
... “ New York . ” Which is how I first heard Lucky Thompson and Milt Jackson , both of whom I later got to know well in Harlem . Many youngsters from the detention home , when their dates came up , went off to the reform school . MASCOT 33.
... “ New York . ” Which is how I first heard Lucky Thompson and Milt Jackson , both of whom I later got to know well in Harlem . Many youngsters from the detention home , when their dates came up , went off to the reform school . MASCOT 33.
Page 34
... heard my mother say , were two of the four West Indians in that whole section of Michigan . Some of the white kids at school , I found , were even friendlier than some of those in Lansing had been . Though some , including the teachers ...
... heard my mother say , were two of the four West Indians in that whole section of Michigan . Some of the white kids at school , I found , were even friendlier than some of those in Lansing had been . Though some , including the teachers ...
Page 37
... heard and saw on the Saturday nights I spent hanging around in the Negro district I knew that race - mixing went on in Lansing . But strangely enough , this didn't have any kind of effect on me . Every Negro in Lansing , I guess , knew ...
... heard and saw on the Saturday nights I spent hanging around in the Negro district I knew that race - mixing went on in Lansing . But strangely enough , this didn't have any kind of effect on me . Every Negro in Lansing , I guess , knew ...
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