The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

waiter with the cooks and bartenders. Both of these, depending on how they liked the waiter, could make his job miserable or ple ...

Renaissance ballrooms battled for the crowds-the Savoy introduced such attractions as Thursday Kitchen Mechanics' Nights, bathin ...

centswould put one penny on each of the six possible combinations of three digits. The number 840, combinated, would include 840 ...

the presence of any police types. In late 1942, each of the military services had their civilian- dress eyes and ears picking up ...

football; he used to call his huge belly "the chippies' playground." Cadillac had a string of about a dozen of the stringiest, s ...

for the grace of God" symbol. To wolves who still were able to catch some rabbits, it had meaning that an old wolf who had lost ...

going was no more than one would expect when one lived in a building out of which prostitutes were working. But what astonished ...

go to some of the after-hours places and speakeasies. When the downtown nightclubs had closed, most of these Harlem places crawl ...

weekend. She had just married some well-to-do Boston white fellow. He was in the service, he had been home on leave, and he had ...

"I just did something, Charlie," I said. "I don't know why I did it-" and I told him. Charlie looked at me. "I wish you hadn't d ...

only about the size of stick matches, I was able to make enough of them so that, after selling them to musicians I knew at the B ...

develop until she was his virtual slave. Around Harlem, the narcotics squad detectives didn't take long to find out I was sellin ...

around there, but these were a cheaper type, this was the worst of the ghetto, the poorest people, the ones who in every ghetto ...

was otherwise dark reddish, something like mine. I took Reginald everywhere, introducing nun. Studying my brother, I liked him. ...

They had their wire on me from uptown, all right. But they still put me through the line. In that big starting room were forty o ...

A 4-F card came to me in the mail, and I never heard from the Army anymore, and never bothered to ask why I was rejected. CHAPTE ...

pulled on them by Negroes. The suits that I wore, the finest, I bought hot for about thirty-five to fifty dollars. I made it my ...

Especially after the nightclubs downtown closed, the taxis and black limousines would be driving uptown, bringing those white pe ...

pitch. Old-timers told me that Harlem had never been the same since the 1935 riot, when millions of dollars worth of damage was ...

But right in the middle of the act, we had some bad luck. A bullet grazed Sammy. We just barely escaped. Sammy fortunately wasn' ...