William wells brown autobiography of malcolm x

Autobiography of African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an autobiography written by American minister Malcolm X, who collaborated with American journalist Alex Haley.

It was released posthumously on October 29, 1965, nine months after his assassination.

Malcolm examines the hypocrisy of forced integration.

Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation.

In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in , Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the.

My first meeting with Malcolm X took place in March in the Muslim restaurant of Temple Number Seven on Lenox.

So child that was born would show some trace of brown.

Haley coauthored the autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted between 1963 and 1965. The Autobiography is a spiritual conversion narrative that outlines Malcolm X's philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism.

After the leader was killed, Haley wrote the book's epilogue.^[a] He described their collaborative process and the events at the end of Malcolm X's life.

While Malcolm X and scholars contemporary to the book's publication regarded Haley as the book's ghostwriter, modern scholars tend to regard him as an essential collaborator who intentionally muted his authorial voice to crea