The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful and important book." - The New York Times 

Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain millions of black men and women equality and respect, Malcolm X inspired as many people in the United States as he caused them to fear him.

His remarkable autobiography, completed just before his murder in 1965, ranges from Omaha and Michigan to Harlem and Makkah and tells of a young, disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addiction, robbery and prison was only reversed by his belief in the rights struggle for black America, and his conversion to Islam. This is an enormously important record of the Civil Rights Movement in America, a scintillating story of a man who refused to allow anyone to tell him who or what he was.