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Autobiography of Malcolm X
by MALCOLM X
"would move. I am not sure why he made this decision, for he was not a frightened
Negro, as most then were, and many still..."
Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies.
The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his
transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate
political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of
white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African
Americans. And there's the vividness with which he depicts black popular
culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston's Roseland
dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can't help but make
them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples. The Autobiography
of Malcolm X limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge
and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People
don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book," he
voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal
story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly
opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s during the civil rights struggle of
the '60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most
un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King
that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road
to freedom. --Wendy Smith
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If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and
the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X.
His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book
that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times.
"Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book."
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MOSAIC -- A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
This informative resource features topics such as:
Colonization:
Liberia
Personal Stories and ACS New Directions
Abolition:
Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
Migration:
Western Migration and Homesteading
Nicodemus, Kansas
Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
WPA (Work Projects Administration):
Cavalcade of the American Negro
Authors and the Federal Writers' Project
Ex-slave Narratives
Important Black Authors
 More Justice, More Peace:
The Black Person's Guide to the American Legal System
by Nedra Campbell
Ms. Campbell was born in Atlanta Georgia; however, currently resides
in Detroit, Michigan. She received a degree from Duke University and
a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Campbell has
represented clients in both the state and federal court systems.
Besides being an attorney, she is the author of an excellent legal guide
written for African Americans, More Justice, More Peace: The Black Person's
Guide to the American Legal System.
From Library Journal
With racial profiling as her starting point, attorney Campbell addresses
the legal rights of African Americans and how they can make the system
work for them. This guide will empower family members, consumers, tenants,
business owners, voters, and more.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description:
An essential guide to making "the system" work in the reader's
favor, this book will arm African American employees, family members,
consumers, tenants, business owners, civil plaintiffs, voters, criminal
suspects, prisoners, and victims with legal information that will empower
them to demand that those in power respect and honor their rights, no
matter how difficult their situation. The American legal system was created
by white men for white men, and therefore it often fails to reflect and
protect the values and interests of black men and women. But over a century
after slavery and decades after Jim Crow, African Americans can now use
this imperfect system to their advantage. The notion of having rights
is flawed; citizens truly have only those rights they choose to exercise
or claim, and this book will show them how to do so. top
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Publishers Weekly: No doubt Keys has a fascinating story to tell—raised
by a single mother, she's a classically trained, New York born-and-bred
neo-soulster with
two multiplatinum albums and five Grammys to her name—but she merely
hints at it in this gathering of poems and lyrics. With their themes
of loneliness, confusion, wonder and desire, most of Keys's free-verse
poems could be the cris de coeur of any American 20-something: "Sometimes
I feel/ like I don't belong anywhere/ And it's going to take so long/
for me to get somewhere/ Sometimes I feel so heavy-hearted/ but I can't
explain/ cause I'm so guarded." But other poems hint at her world travels,
her budding sense of social justice and her
concerns about stardom ("When gone is the glory/ When gone is the shine/ Is gone
the whole/ Of your fortune and
pride?"). Nearly half of the book consists of lyrics from her two albums, Songs
in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys; while they make a nice complement to
the poems, the words feel a bit flat without the blaxploitation beat of "Heartburn," say,
or the impassioned vocal delivery of "Fallin.' " For the Keys completist, however,
this will be a compelling book of rock ephemera.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights
reserved.
Marie Claire, December 2004 ...Keys gives your heart a tug without
the subsequent eye roll.
Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics
by ALICIA KEYS top of page
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson
"I was born in the late twenties on the verge of the Great Depression,
which was to spread its disastrous arms into every corner of..."
Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director
and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of
King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal,
Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography.
In an early student essay, King prophetically penned: "We cannot
have an enlightened democracy with one great group living in ignorance....
We cannot have a nation orderly and sound with one group so ground down
and thwarted that it is almost forced into unsocial attitudes and crime."
Such statements, made throughout King's career, are skillfully woven together
into a coherent narrative of the quest for social justice. The autobiography
delves, for example, into the philosophical training King received at
Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University,
where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin
Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through
King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs,
including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech,"
the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In one of his last speeches,
King reminded his audience that "in the final analysis, God does
not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we
make, but by the total bent of our lives." Carson's skillful editing
has created an original argument in King's favor that draws directly
from
the source, illuminating the circumstances of King's life without deifying
his person. --Eugene Holley Jr. top of page
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A professor of history and the noted author and editor of several books
on the civil rights struggle, Dr. Clayborne Carson was selected by the
estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to edit and publish Dr. King's
papers. Drawing upon an unprecedented archive of King's own words--including
unpublished letters and diaries, as well as video footage and recordings--Dr.
Carson creates an unforgettable self-portrait of Dr. King. In his own
vivid, compassionate voice, here is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as student,
minister, husband, father, and world leader . . . as well as a rich, moving
chronicle of a people and a nation in the face of powerful--and still
resonating--change. top of page
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