From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct... read more
“Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.”
“To understand that of any person his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
“If you once believed in the truth, and now you are beginning to doubt the truth, you didn't believe the truth in the first place. What could make you doubt the truth other than your own weak self?”Elijah Muhammed
Attallah Shabazz: Foreword
M. S. Handler: Introduction
Chapter One: Nightmare
Chapter Two: Mascot
Chapter Three: "Homeboy"
Chapter Four: Laura
Chapter Five: Harlemite
Chapter Six: Detroit Red
Chapter Seven: Hustler
Chapter Eight: Trapped
Chapter Nine: Caught
Chapter Ten: Satan
Chapter Eleven: Saved
Chapter Twelve: Savior
Chapter Thirteen: Minister Malcolm X
Chapter Fourteen: Black Muslims
Chapter Fifteen: Icarus
Chapter Sixteen: Out
Chapter Seventeen: Mecca
Chapter Eighteen: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Chapter Nineteen: 1965
Alex Haley: Epilogue
Ossie Davis: On Malcolm X
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