Biography books on malcolm x wikipedia

There are countless books on Malcolm X, and it comes with good reason, he was a Muslim minister and human rights activist who served as a prominent figure during the civil rights movement.

“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it,” he remarked.

In order to get to the bottom of what inspired one of America’s most consequential figures to make his mark on western society, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 best books on Malcolm X.

The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne

Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 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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