Malcolm X
By Any Means Necessary

This book fascinated me. I had not read much about Malcolm X before. I am impressed by his intelligence and passion. I found it so sad that his teacher crushed his dreams. When he was about 13 his teacher told him he would not be able to become a lawyer because he was black. That is one of the sadde......more

Since I found this book on a store’s shelf among other biographies (in the not-children’s section), I assumed it would be just what I needed to learn about Malcolm X, of whom I was taught nothing in school (rural Texas, 1980s). Instead, it became quickly obvious as I read that this is an oversimplif......more

This was basically a complication of historical facts about Malcom X taken from his autobiography, the book his wife wrote in the late 1960s, a book writer by his daughter and other documented literary works. There wasn't any new information in this book that hasn't previously been discussed.......more

Don’t mention boot straps when you’ve barely allowed us to get the boot. FOH!!! IMAGINE. The Autobiography of Malcolm X is the most life changing book that is have read followed by Black Boy (Richard Wright) & Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison). They remind me of what America was like & to be forever gra......more

An excellent companion—in whole or part—for Christopher Paul Curtis’s texts (especially Watson and Mighty Miss Malone) or Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer. My favorite parts were the intro and conclusion for how Myers frames how all people come from context.......more