The Death and Life of Malcolm XFor this paperback edition of a major work on one of the most important black leaders of this century, the author, a senior editor of Newsweek, has added a substantial epilogue which argues convincingly that three of the five accomplices in Malccolm X's assassination in 1965 are still free. (Univ. of Illinois Press) |
Contents
Matters of Color | 1 |
The Death of Malcolm X | 3 |
A Conversation at the Shabazz Frosti Kreem | 5 |
Malcolm | 8 |
Malcolm Descending | 26 |
The Devil in the Flesh | 32 |
Allah in Paradise Valley | 35 |
The History of the End of the World | 41 |
The First Day | 281 |
What the Brothers Did | 289 |
The Second Man | 293 |
The Rites of Winter | 299 |
The Third Man | 304 |
Two Matters for the Police | 307 |
The Ones That Got Away | 308 |
The Judas Factor | 315 |
Malcolm Redux | 44 |
Harlem | 49 |
The Parable of Hinton Johnson | 55 |
What Mr Muhammad Told Dr King | 65 |
Strangers in a Strange Land | 66 |
We Are a World | 79 |
Waiting for Allah | 92 |
Three Encounters at a Picnic | 107 |
The Hour of the Knife | 121 |
At the Edge of the Grave | 123 |
A Declaration of Independence | 133 |
A Declaration of War | 159 |
A Pilgrims Progress | 160 |
The Child Has Come Home | 172 |
The Return | 182 |
The Far Side of the Rubicon | 191 |
On Standing on the Tops of Trucks During Riots | 204 |
The Second Time Around | 206 |
By Any Means Necessary | 221 |
Coming Apart | 239 |
The Malcolm File | 256 |
The Hour of the Gun | 262 |
A Detective Story | 279 |
Trial | 318 |
Thomas | 320 |
T | 325 |
Zeroing In | 328 |
Betty | 333 |
Hayer | 335 |
Butler | 339 |
Confession | 348 |
Judgment | 354 |
Inquest | 359 |
The Case Is Closed | 373 |
Every Goodbye Aint Gone | 375 |
The Day Malcolm X Died | 377 |
The Malcolm Legend | 378 |
How John O Killens Memorialized a Black Artist | 383 |
What Became of the LostFound Nation of Islam | 392 |
The Malcolm Legacy | 395 |
The Death of Malcolm X | 404 |
1979 | 407 |
Notes on Sources | 437 |
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