"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Haley

"We're not Americans. We're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock--that rock landed on us." (Lord, Thornton, and Bodipo-Memba, 1992)
Words like those above would engrave Malcolm X into the minds of Americans from all racial backgrounds and socio-economic classes. Malcolm X was certainly not one to mince words. America would come to remember him as "The Hate That Hate Produced", the title of a 1959 CBS documentary narrated by Mike Wallace which focused on Malcolm's involvement in what was perceived as the "rise of black racism" (Lord, Thornton, and Bodipo-Memba, 1992).
In "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", Alex Haley presents a different version of Malcolm X than what we are so used to seeing. We meet Malcolm, Malcolm Little, in his teenage years. Instead of his characteristic suit and tie of later years he is decked out in the Afro and......

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