Malcolm X (1925–1965)
Autor(a) de The Autobiography of Malcolm X
About the Author
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, and the son of a Baptist minister, Malcolm Little grew up with violence. Whites killed several members of his family, including his father. As a youngster, he went to live with a sister in Boston where he started a career of crime that he continued in New York's Harlem as a mostrar mais drug peddler and pimp. While serving a prison term for burglary in 1952, he converted to Islam and undertook an intensive program of study and self-improvement, movingly detailed in "Autobiography of Malcolm X." He wrote constantly to Elijah Muhammad (Elijah Poole, 1897--1975), head of the black separatist Nation of Islam, which already claimed the loyalty of several of his brothers and sisters. Upon release from prison, Little went to Detroit, met with Elijah Muhammad, and dropped the last name Little, adopting X to symbolize the unknown African name his ancestors had been robbed of when they were enslaved. Soon he was actively speaking and organizing as a Muslim minister. In his angry and articulate preaching, he condemned white America for its treatment of blacks, denounced the integration movement as black self-delusion, and advocated black control of black communities. During the turbulent 1960's, he was seen as inflammatory and dangerous. In 1963, a storm broke out when he called President Kennedy's assassination a case of "chickens coming home to roost," meaning that white violence, long directed against blacks, had now turned on itself. The statement was received with fury, and Elijah Muhammad denounced him publicly. Shocked and already disillusioned with the leader because of his reputed involvement with several women, Malcolm X went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and then traveled to several African countries, where he was received as a fellow Muslim. When he returned home, he was bearing a new message: Islam is a religion that welcomes and unites people of all races in the Oneness of Allah. On the night of February 21, 1965, as he was preaching at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom, he was assassinated. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Malcolm K. Little / Malcolm X in the last months of his life.
Séries
Obras por Malcolm X
Black Power - Poder Negro 2 exemplares
Understanding the African Struggle 2 exemplares
A Choice of Two Roads [sound recording] — Interviewee — 2 exemplares
The Autobiography 1 exemplar
Why I Am Not an American 1 exemplar
Malcolm X Quotes 1 exemplar
The Unstilled Voice [sound recording] 1 exemplar
Message to the Grass Roots [sound recording] 1 exemplar
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alex Haley (1-Mar-2001) Paperback 1 exemplar
Malcolm X Talks to Young People (A Young Socialist Pamphlet) 1969 by Malcolm X by Malcolm X 1 exemplar
The Last Message [sound recording] 1 exemplar
Malcolm X : the man and his times 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- X, Malcolm
- Outros nomes
- Little, Malcolm
El-Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik - Data de nascimento
- 1925-05-19
- Data de falecimento
- 1965-02-21
- Localização do túmulo
- Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York, Amerika
- Sexo
- male
- Local de nascimento
- Omaha, Nebraska, Amerika
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, Amerika
- Causa da morte
- assassinated
- Locais de residência
- Boston, Massachusetts, Amerika
Lansing, Michigan, Amerika
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amerika - Ocupações
- human rights activist
cleric - Relações
- Shabazz, Betty (wife)
Shabazz, Ilyasah (daughter) - Organizações
- Nation of Islam
Muslim Mosque, Inc.
Organization of Afro-American Unity
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 41
- Also by
- 12
- Membros
- 11,431
- Popularidade
- #2,058
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Críticas
- 139
- ISBN
- 153
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 14