Malcolm X
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- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
- The Speeches of Malcolm X (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Biography Series)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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Malcolm X’s (born Malcolm Little) early years were marked by unsettling events: His family, threatened by the Ku Klux Klan in Omaha, moved to Lansing, Michigan, only to have their house burned down by a white hate group. Malcolm’s father died in 1931 under mysterious circumstances, leaving his mother with the task of raising eight children. Malcolm eventually moved to Boston in 1941 and to New York in 1943, where he first experienced the street life of the African American urban poor. After becoming a burglar, he received a six-year prison term for armed...
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