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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]; ©2020.Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 612 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781631491665
  • 1631491660
Other title:
  • Life of Malcolm X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BP223 .Z8 P396 2020
Contents:
Part I: 1925-1939 -- Part II: 1939-1946 -- Part III: 1946-1963 -- Part IV: 1963-1965 -- Appendix: Malik Shabass (Malcolm X): some questions answered.
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-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. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into 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, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism. 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.' In tracing Malcolm X's life from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm's Depression-era youth, describing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride in her children after Earl's death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows Malcolm's exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary."--inside jacket.
List(s) this item appears in: AAHM - African American History Month
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks BP223 .Z8 P396 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001496693

Part I: 1925-1939 -- Part II: 1939-1946 -- Part III: 1946-1963 -- Part IV: 1963-1965 -- Appendix: Malik Shabass (Malcolm X): some questions answered.

"Les Payne...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. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into 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, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of racism. 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.' In tracing Malcolm X's life from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm's Depression-era youth, describing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride in her children after Earl's death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows Malcolm's exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary."--inside jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-581) and index.

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