Volume 5, Number 7 · November 11, 1965
The Pilgrimage of Malcolm X
By I.F. Stone
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
with the assistance of Alex Haley
Grove, 455 pp., $7.50
Malcolm X Speaks
edited by George Breitman
Merit Publishers, 256 pp., $5.95
Malcolm X was born into Black Nationalism. His father was a follower of Marcus Garvey, the West Indian who launched a 'Back to Africa' movement in the Twenties. Malcolm's first clash with white men took place when his mother was pregnant with him; a mob of Klansmen in Omaha, Nebraska, waving shotguns and rifles, warned her one night to move out of town because her husband was spreading trouble among the 'good' Negroes with Garvey's teachings. One of his earliest memories was of seeing their home burned down in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, because the Black Legion, a white Fascist organization, considered his father an 'uppity' Negro. The body of his father, a tall, powerful black man from Georgia, soon afterwards was found literally cut to pieces in one of those mysterious accidents that often veil a racial killing.
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