Malcolm X (1925–1965)
Autor/a de The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Malcolm K. Little / Malcolm X in the last months of his life.
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Obres de Malcolm X
Black Power - Poder Negro 2 exemplars
Understanding the African Struggle 2 exemplars
A Choice of Two Roads [sound recording] — Interviewee — 2 exemplars
The Autobiography 1 exemplars
Malcolm X Talks to Young People - Left Book Club 1 exemplars
Why I Am Not an American 1 exemplars
Malcolm X Quotes 1 exemplars
The Unstilled Voice [sound recording] 1 exemplars
Message to the Grass Roots [sound recording] 1 exemplars
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alex Haley (1-Mar-2001) Paperback 1 exemplars
Malcolm X Talks to Young People (A Young Socialist Pamphlet) 1969 by Malcolm X by Malcolm X 1 exemplars
The Last Message [sound recording] 1 exemplars
Malcolm X : the man and his times 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Col·laborador — 69 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- X, Malcolm
- Altres noms
- Little, Malcolm
El-Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik - Data de naixement
- 1925-05-19
- Data de defunció
- 1965-02-21
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York, Amerika
- Gènere
- male
- Lloc de naixement
- Omaha, Nebraska, Amerika
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, Amerika
- Causa de la mort
- assassinated
- Llocs de residència
- Boston, Massachusetts, Amerika
Lansing, Michigan, Amerika
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amerika - Professions
- human rights activist
cleric - Relacions
- Shabazz, Betty (wife)
Shabazz, Ilyasah (daughter) - Organitzacions
- Nation of Islam
Muslim Mosque, Inc.
Organization of Afro-American Unity
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 41
- També de
- 12
- Membres
- 11,431
- Popularitat
- #2,058
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 139
- ISBN
- 153
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 14