One other thing set The Autobiography of Malcolm X apart: its subject would not live to see book published — just as he had predicted. Alex Haley retired after 20 years with the Coast Guard in ...

"You just watch," Malcolm X predicts in his autobiography, "the white man, in his press... will make use of me dead as he made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol of 'hatred'". Events by and ...

Kennedy and King, left a gaping hole in the so-called Black militant movement, while elevating Malcolm X, as he stated in his autobiography, into a “martyr.” Three men were arrested and ...

His memoir, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", written with Alex Haley and published eight months after his death, is seen as an American classic. But he is also widely reviled – inside and ...

On Friday, Ilyasah Shabazz will return to the site of a national tragedy − the place where civil rights icon Malcolm X was gunned down in front of his pregnant wife and young children.

A foster child and street hustler who went on to become a world leader, Malcolm X electrified some audiences and terrified others with his aggressive brand of Islamic teachings and black nationalism.

Malcolm X's life was tragically cut short when he ... memorials and even street names dedicated to him while his autobiography has become one of the most influential nonfiction books of the ...

When Malcolm X came to Smethwick 60 years ago, it was to witness at first hand the racial discrimination being endured by Black and Asian communities. For many local residents, what was happening in ...

but couldn’t afford the down payment and sought an advance on his unpublished autobiography, Whitaker said. A few days later, on Feb. 21, Malcolm X was killed while preparing to speak at the ...