AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X

FROM HUSTLING, DRUG ADDICTION AND ARMED VIOLENCE IN AMERICA'S BLACK GHETTOS MALCOLM X TURNED, IN A DRAMATIC PRISON CONVERSION, TO THE PURITANICAL FERVOUR OF THE BLACK MUSLIMS. AS THEIR SPOKESMAN HE BECAME IDENTIFIED IN THE WHITE PRESS AS A TERRIFYING TEACHER OF RACE HATRED; BUT TO HIS DIRECT AUDIENCE, THE OPPRESSED AMERICAN BLACKS, HE BROUGHT HOPE AND SELF-RESPECT. THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY (WRITTEN WITH ALEX HALEY) REVEALS HIS QUICK-WITTED INTEGRITY, USUALLY OBSCURED BY BATTERIES OF FRENZIED HEADLINES, AND THE FIERCE IDEALISM WHICH LED HIM TO REJECT BOTH LIBERAL HYPOCRISIES AND BLACK RACIALISM.