The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By Malcolm X
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Malcolm X tells his own story, recounted to journalist Alex Haley: a childhood scarred by racism, years as a street hustler in Boston and New York, prison, and his conversion to the Nation of Islam. From there he became one of its most powerful voices, before breaking with it and making a pilgrimage to Mecca. Published in 1965, months after his assassination, the book is a searing account of race in America and a classic of the Black American experience.