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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley

Form
Form Autobiography
Year
Year 1965
Pages
Pages 460

A Black man moves from a childhood scarred by racism through prison and crime into a fiery ministry preaching separatism, then to Mecca, a pilgrimage that widens who he counts as a brother, before he is assassinated.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley

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