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Essay Archive - The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Autobiography of Malcom X
When Malcolm X was murdered in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem on February
21, 1965, he was world-famous as "the angriest black man in America." By
that time he had completed his autobiography, so we have now the
opportunity to get information of this both hated and loved Afro-American
leader’s life at first hand. The book "The Autobiography of Malcolm X,"
which he wrote with the assistance of Alex Haley, was first published in
1965.
The Two Authors
Malcolm X did not write his autobiography on his own, but he told his life
to the journalist and novelist Alex Haley. Haley had already int....
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