The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an autobiographical novel by Malcolm X, originally Malcolm Little, which follows his life in Midwest to his subsequent maturation into the one of the most controversial black leaders of the time. ... The motif of skin color in Coming of Age in Mississippi, and the use of status symbols and the conk hairstyle in the Autobiography of Malcolm X all illustrate the tensions within the black community, the desire to be white and the hierarchy of blacks in society based on the lightness of their skin tone. ... The Autobiography of Malcolm X highlights the tension in ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She's especially well known for her string of powerful autobiographies depicting the rich yet tumultuous journey of her life. ... She was also involved in the African American Expatriate community and this is when she became acquainted with Malcolm X. Angelou returned to the United States in 1965 with Malcolm X to help him establish a new civil rights organization, "The Organization of Afro-American Unity". Malcolm was assassinated a short time afterward as he prepared to address members of his organization in a Manhattan ballroom. ... It was also in this year that Maya Angelo wrote th...

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In 1968, Anne Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. ... Indeed, the Civil Rights Movement was transforming, turning away from the nonviolence of Martin Luther King to a more militant stance embodied by Malcolm X. ... Individually, covert racism is exemplified in Malcolm X's autobiography. ... Malcolm's thoughts in his autobiography can be applied to our current society. ... At any level, the racial and discriminative parallels of Anne Moody's autobiography and modern society are absolute. ...

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During a month-long trip to India in 1959, he had the opportunity to meet family members and followers of Gandhi, the man he described in his autobiography as "the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.... These young radicals stuck closer to the ideals of the black nationalist leader Malcolm X (himself assassinated in 1965), who had condemned King's advocacy of non-violence as "criminal" in the face of the continuing repression suffered by African Americans. ... His murder, like the killing of Malcolm X in 1965, radicalized many moderate African-Amer...

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In his autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide, Newton wrote, "during those long years in the Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. ... He read the works of Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and Che Guevara. ...

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The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate