Autobiography of Malcolm X

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CONTENTS ATTALLAH SHABAZZ: FOREWORD M. S. HANDLER: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: NIGHTMARE CHAPTER TWO: MASCOT CHAPTER THREE: "HOME ...

ATTALLAH SHABAZZ FOREWORD Behold, America. Just when our country's cultural evolution appears to have the man who was the author ...

inconceivable as others have found it. To my mother, it was his due. As the house lights dimmed in the Apollo Theatre, the flick ...

encourage a paralyzed constituent of American culture to consider the range of options to which they were entitled-the "means." ...

But if his first fourteen years hadn't been rooted in a healthy diet of education and the richness of his heritage, Malcolm woul ...

As my father's philosophy expanded, he began to empower, enlighten, and embrace an untold populace extending far beyond the limi ...

I had long known of the individual and cultural values that others placed on my father's life. But I would learn of another meas ...

Baldwin. Marvin Worth was the lone torchbearer, a thorn in Hollywood's side, holding true to the initial dream for almost twenty ...

For her, it was essential that if she was going to lose her lifemate to the struggle, then those for whom he had struggled must ...

When the curtain descends on this current wave of attention and the thematic celebrations cool down, my sisters and I will remai ...

M.S. HANDLER INTRODUCTION The Sunday before he was to officially announce his rupture with Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X came to my ...

served coffee but became uneasy in this aseptic, silent atmosphere as time passed. Malcolm finally arrived. He was very tall, ha ...

fact that although he had become a national figure, he was still a man of the people who, they felt, would never betray them. Th ...

destroyed in the Negro. American autobiographical literature is filled with numerous accounts of remarkable men who pulled thems ...

CHAPTER ONE NIGHTMARE When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up ...

hospital. Then we moved to Milwaukee, where Reginald was born. From infancy, he had some kind of hernia condition which was to h ...

and then, when she put those smooth words on him, he would grab her. My father was also belligerent toward all of the children, ...

which he held quietly in different people's homes. There were never more than a few people at any one time-twenty at most. But t ...

hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. Not only did we have our big ...