MALCOLM X

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Little Red
2. Chapter Two - Detroit
3. Chapter Three - Prison Prophet
4. Chapter Four - Letters and Light
5. Chapter Five - The Messenger
6. Chapter Six - El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Begins
7. Chapter Seven - Minister of Fire
8. Chapter Eight - By Any Means Necessary
9. Chapter Nine - The White Devil
10. Chapter Ten - Farrakhan, Elijah, and the Machine
11. Chapter Eleven - JFK and the Silence
12. Chapter Twelve - The Split
13. Chapter Thirteen - Pilgrimage
14. Chapter Fourteen - Revolution Reframed
15. Chapter Fifteen - Enemies on All Sides
16. Chapter Sixteen - Death at the Audubon
17. Chapter Seventeen - Autopsy and Aftermath
18. Chapter Eighteen - Who Killed Malcolm?

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Little Red BEFORE HE WAS a minister, a firebrand, or a martyr, Malcolm was just a kid with red hair and no illusions about America. He was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the sixth of eight children in a household that was already on the system’s radar. His father, Earl Little, was a preacher and proud follower of Marcus Garvey. He believed Black people should stop begging white America for scraps and build something of their own. That kind of thinking didn’t just make you unpopular. It made you a target. They moved from Omaha to Milwaukee, and then to Lansing, Michigan, but trouble always followed. White supremacists threatened them constantly....