Malcolm X: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

This fresh biography unearths previously unpublished nuances about Malcolm Xs life.Malcolm X: A Biography is a historical and political analysis of the black leaders life and times offering a detailed treatment of its subjects multifaceted story. Laid out chronologically the book treats Malcolms life from his birth through his childhood adult life work as a Civil Rights activist and assassination. Readers will learn about the torching of Malcolms familys Lansing MI home when he was a young child and about the death of his father a few years later―both acts attributed to a white supremacist organization. They will learn of his participation in narcotics prostitution and gambling rings and of his arrest and prison term. And they will learn about his discovery of the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad his conversion to the Muslim faith his break with NOI and his eventual espousal of faith in integration. Finally the book looks at Malcolms assassination and at his legacy and importance today.PhotographsAn exhaustive chronology