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A review by isabel_reyes
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne, Tamara Payne
5.0
immensely wishing i had read his autobiography (a definite precursor to this) because i feel like i missed out on a lot of the perhaps more obvious material that he would have included in that.
the things that surprised me:
-he was a pretty terrible kid and was partially to blame for the institutionalization of his mother
-either malcolm x wasn’t as involved in the civil rights movement directly as i had thought or this book was slightly incomprehensive but either way —> he was a broad preaching in the middle east for much of the civil rights movement
-he was not a member of the black panther movement
-he was a separatist who, at one point in time, colluded with the KKK
-he broke away from Elijah Mohammad’s teachings towards the end of his life and flamed his former mentor
-the fbi and his former american muslim brothers worked together to have him killed
the things that surprised me:
-he was a pretty terrible kid and was partially to blame for the institutionalization of his mother
-either malcolm x wasn’t as involved in the civil rights movement directly as i had thought or this book was slightly incomprehensive but either way —> he was a broad preaching in the middle east for much of the civil rights movement
-he was not a member of the black panther movement
-he was a separatist who, at one point in time, colluded with the KKK
-he broke away from Elijah Mohammad’s teachings towards the end of his life and flamed his former mentor
-the fbi and his former american muslim brothers worked together to have him killed