![]() ![]() Drifting from childhood poverty to petty crime, Malcolm found himself in jail. Raised in Lansing, Michigan, Malcolm Little journeyed on a road to fame as astonishing as it was unpredictable. In a unique collaboration, Haley worked with Malcolm X for nearly two years, interviewing, listening to, and understanding the most controversial leader of his time. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley. And his enduring message is as relevant today as when he first delivered it. ![]() Malcolm X-once called the most dangerous man in America-challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one voice sounded more urgently, more passionately, than the rest. ![]() Board of Education in 1954, the civil rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. Annotation: With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. ![]()
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