The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Alex Haley, Malcolm Little
- First Published: 1965
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Current events, Memory, Politics, Human rights, Islam, Leadership, Revolutions
- Locales: Boston, MA, Detroit, MI, Lansing, MI, New York
The Work
The Autobiography of Malcolm X was hailed as a literary classic shortly after it appeared. Its description of Malcolm X’s discovery of an African American identity continues to inspire its readers. The two most memorable phases of Malcolm X’s life described in his autobiography, and quite possibly the two phases most formative of his identity, are his self-education and religious conversion while in prison and his last year of life, in which he set out to organize a multiracial coalition to end racism. The first of these phases followed a difficult childhood...
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