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The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne

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The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 869-885)

resource.biographical

individual biography

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illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The dead are arising

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Sub title

the life of Malcolm X

Summary

"Les Payne embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X. His goal was ambitious: an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, setting Malcolm's life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century's most politically relevant figures 'from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary'"--From the publisher's web site

Table Of Contents

Introduction / by Tamara Payne -- 1925-1939. Born against the current ; Storms of racism ; The anchor is lost ; Pulling the family apart -- 1939-1946. East Lansing Red ; Lighting out for his territory ; Chased out of seventh heaven ; Luck runs out ; Learning to fight with words -- 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 -- 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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