The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X /

The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / Les Payne and Tamara Payne.

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In 1990 Payne embarked on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X. All living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world....

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Main Authors: Payne, Les, 1941-2018 (Author), Payne, Tamara (Author)
Other title:Life of Malcolm X.
Malcolm X.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
X, Malcolm, > 1925-1965.
Black Muslims > Biography.
Black nationalism > United States.
African American Muslims > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.
Race relations.
African American civil rights workers.
African American Muslims.
African Americans.
Black Muslims.
Black nationalism.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Tamara Payne
  • Part I: 1925-1939
  • Born against the current
  • Storms of racism
  • The anchor is lost
  • Pulling the family apart
  • Part II: 1939-1946
  • East Lansing Red
  • Lighting out for his territory
  • Chased out of seventh heaven
  • Luck runs out
  • Learning to fight with words
  • Part III: 1946-1963
  • Birth of the Nation of Islam
  • Building temples in the east
  • Hartford : "The dead there are rising"
  • "Meet with them devils"
  • Malcolm, the media, and Martin Luther King
  • Part IV: 1963-1965
  • The split
  • The international stage
  • The week before : a dry run
  • The hit
  • Back at the mosque
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) : some questions answered.

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