Autobiography of Malcolm X
His body was cut almost in half. He lived two and a half hours in that condition. Negroes then were stronger than they are now, ...
working, and the people saw us, and realized she was actually a Negro, she was fired on the spot, and she came home crying, this ...
tangible evidence that we were destitute. We had known other families who had gone on relief. We had known without anyone in our ...
to do. I was walking away toward town with visions of buying something good to eat, and this older white boy I knew, Richard Dix ...
my mother, I loved her. The state people, we found out, had interviewed the Gohannas family, andthe Gohannases had said that the ...
heart of the Negro community, and a few white kids were there, but Big Boy didn't mix much with any of our schoolmates, and I di ...
I truly believe that if ever a state social agency destroyed a family, it destroyed ours. We wanted and tried to stay together. ...
CHAPTER TWO MASCOT On June twenty-seventh of that year, nineteen thirty-seven, Joe Louis knocked out James J. Braddock to become ...
place. And finally I signed up to fight Bill Peterson again. This time, the bouts were held in his hometown of Alma, Michigan. T ...
detention home on the weekends with Lucille. I noticed again how white people smelled different from us, and how their food tast ...
while still a ward. So I entered their seventh grade. The only other Negroes there were some of the Lyons children, younger than ...
be brought in to play. But most often, the music was a phonograph set up on a table, with the volume turned up high, and the rec ...
getting a reputation as one of the better amateur fighters in this part of the state; everyone really expected that he was going ...
who had some kind of physical illness that had just lingered on. A few days later, after visiting the homes where each of us wer ...
Somehow, I happened to be alone in the classroom with Mr. Ostrowski, my English teacher. He was a tall, rather reddish white man ...
want to tell me what's wrong?" I shook her hand, and said, "Nothing, Mrs. Swerlin." Then I went and got my things, and came back ...
CHAPTER THREE “HOMEBOY” I looked like Lil Abner. Mason, Michigan, was written all over me. My kinky, reddish hair was cut hick s ...
Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imita ...
young people my age" who were to be seen in the Townsend Drugstore two blocks from her house, and a couple of other places. But ...
sounded as if we had been raised in the same block. I could sense Shorty's genuine gladness, and I don't have to say how lucky I ...
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