Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-885).
Contents:
Appendix: Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X): some questions answered. by Tamara Payne -- Part I: Back at the mosque -- Storms of racism -- The anchor is lost -- Pulling the family apart -- Part II: 1939-1946. East Lansing Red -- Lighting out for his territory -- Chased out of seventh heaven -- Luck runs out -- Learning to fight with words -- Part III: 1946-1963. Birth of the Nation of Islam -- Building temples in the east -- Hartford: "The dead there are rising" -- "Meet with them devils" -- Malcolm, the media, and Martin Luther King -- Part IV: 1963-1965. The split -- The international stage -- The week before: a dry run -- The hit -- Back at the mosque -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X): some questions answered.
Summary:
"In 1990, Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X--all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. Payne's goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction, correct the historical record and deliver extraordinary revelations"--Page 4 of cover.
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