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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this compelling and thought-provoking debut novel, after a terrorist attack rocks the country and anti-Islamic sentiment stirs, three Black Muslim girls create a space where they can shatter assumptions and share truths.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most...
4) Malcolm X
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
February 21, 1965. Controversial civil rights leader Malcolm X is gunned down during a speech in Manhattan. Few were shocked by the news of Malcolm X's death. Since 1952 the former member of the Nation of Islam had supported the Nation's philosophy of violence as the method to achieve justice for blacks in the United States. But in March 1964, after a major shift in his philosophy, Malcolm changed his message. He no longer agreed with the Nation of...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. 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,...
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brother minister is the explosive and mesmerizing documentary that dares reveal the mystery surrounding the assassination of Malcolm X, a truly American hero. It probes the innocence of two of the convicted assassins, reveals the true identities of the killers, examines the FBI and NYPD clandestine roles in the assassination through recently de-classified documents, and discovers the secret origin of the Nation of Islam and its political and religioius...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In February 1946, when the 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and street hustler in Boston. By the time of his parole in August 1952, he had transformed into a voracious reader, joined the Black Muslims, and was poised to become Malcolm X, one of the most prominent and important intellectuals of the civil rights era. While scholars and commentators have exhaustively...
Author
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Compiling the definitive speeches, sermons, and correspondence as well as some never-before-seen original material, this comprehensive narrative biography of American icon, Malcolm X, will be the definitive reference volume for young readers.
10) Betty before X
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
The FBI has made possible a reassembling of the history of Malcolm X that goes beyond any previous research. From the opening of his file in March of 1953 to his assassination in 1965, the story of Malcolm X's political life is a gripping one.
Shortly after he was released from a Boston prison in 1953, the FBI watched every move Malcolm X made. Their files on him totaled more than 3,600 pages, covering every facet of his life. Viewing the file as...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
℗2012
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a 14-year-old he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At 16 he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At 19 he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At 20 he was in prison.
It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the name Malcolm X, and there he developed his beliefs about what being black means...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions...
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1300L
Physical Desc
106 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.
18) Meet Malcolm X
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life and career of the American civil rights worker Malcolm X.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1190L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Malcolm X grew to be one of America's most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by his daughter, this inspiring picture book biography celebrates a vision of freedom andBolstered by the love and wisdom of his large, warm family, young Malcolm Little was a natural born leader. But when confronted with intolerance and a series of tragedies, Malcolm's optimism and faith were threatened. He had to learn how to be...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam--a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult--saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation s message. The two became fast friends, keeping their interactions secret from the...
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