Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

690 Pages·2011·2.68 MB·English

by  Manning Marable

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication

CHAPTER 1 - “Up, You Mighty Race!”
CHAPTER 2 - The Legend of Detroit Red
CHAPTER 3 - Becoming “X”
CHAPTER 4 - “They Don’t Come Like the Minister”
CHAPTER 5 - “Brother, a Minister Has to Be Married”
CHAPTER 6 - “The Hate That Hate Produced”
CHAPTER 7 - “As Sure As God Made Green Apples”
CHAPTER 8 - From Prayer to Protest
CHAPTER 9 - “He Was Developing Too Fast”
CHAPTER 10 - “The Chickens Coming Home to Roost”
CHAPTER 11 - An Epiphany in the Hajj
CHAPTER 12 - “Do Something About Malcolm X”
CHAPTER 13 - “In the Struggle for Dignity”
CHAPTER 14 - “Such a Man Is Worthy of Death”
CHAPTER 15 - Death Comes on Time
CHAPTER 16 - Life After Death

EPILOGUE
Acknowledgements
NOTES
A GLOSSARY OF TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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by Malcolm X and Alex Haley. Copyright © 1964 by Alex Haley and Malcolm X. Copyright © 1965 by
Alex Haley and Betty Shabazz. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

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Malcolm X : a life of reinvention / Manning Marable. p. cm.
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1. X, Malcolm, 1925–1965. 2. Black Muslims—Biography. 3. African Americans—Biography. I. Title.
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