Malcolm X (1925–1965)
Auteur de L'Autobiographie de Malcolm X
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, and the son of a Baptist minister, Malcolm Little grew up with violence. Whites killed several members of his family, including his father. As a youngster, he went to live with a sister in Boston where he started a career of crime that he continued in New York's Harlem as a afficher plus drug peddler and pimp. While serving a prison term for burglary in 1952, he converted to Islam and undertook an intensive program of study and self-improvement, movingly detailed in "Autobiography of Malcolm X." He wrote constantly to Elijah Muhammad (Elijah Poole, 1897--1975), head of the black separatist Nation of Islam, which already claimed the loyalty of several of his brothers and sisters. Upon release from prison, Little went to Detroit, met with Elijah Muhammad, and dropped the last name Little, adopting X to symbolize the unknown African name his ancestors had been robbed of when they were enslaved. Soon he was actively speaking and organizing as a Muslim minister. In his angry and articulate preaching, he condemned white America for its treatment of blacks, denounced the integration movement as black self-delusion, and advocated black control of black communities. During the turbulent 1960's, he was seen as inflammatory and dangerous. In 1963, a storm broke out when he called President Kennedy's assassination a case of "chickens coming home to roost," meaning that white violence, long directed against blacks, had now turned on itself. The statement was received with fury, and Elijah Muhammad denounced him publicly. Shocked and already disillusioned with the leader because of his reputed involvement with several women, Malcolm X went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and then traveled to several African countries, where he was received as a fellow Muslim. When he returned home, he was bearing a new message: Islam is a religion that welcomes and unites people of all races in the Oneness of Allah. On the night of February 21, 1965, as he was preaching at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom, he was assassinated. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Malcolm K. Little / Malcolm X in the last months of his life.
Séries
Œuvres de Malcolm X
Nous, les Nègres : entretiens [de James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King] avec Kenneth B. Clark (1963) 20 exemplaires
Black Power - Poder Negro 2 exemplaires
Understanding the African Struggle 2 exemplaires
A Choice of Two Roads [sound recording] — Interviewee — 2 exemplaires
The Autobiography 1 exemplaire
Malcolm X Talks to Young People - Left Book Club 1 exemplaire
Why I Am Not an American 1 exemplaire
Malcolm X Quotes 1 exemplaire
The Unstilled Voice [sound recording] 1 exemplaire
Message to the Grass Roots [sound recording] 1 exemplaire
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alex Haley (1-Mar-2001) Paperback 1 exemplaire
Malcolm X Talks to Young People (A Young Socialist Pamphlet) 1969 by Malcolm X by Malcolm X 1 exemplaire
The Last Message [sound recording] 1 exemplaire
Malcolm X : the man and his times 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- X, Malcolm
- Autres noms
- Little, Malcolm
El-Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik - Date de naissance
- 1925-05-19
- Date de décès
- 1965-02-21
- Lieu de sépulture
- Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York, Amerika
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- Omaha, Nebraska, Amerika
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, Amerika
- Cause du décès
- assassinated
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, Amerika
Lansing, Michigan, Amerika
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amerika - Professions
- human rights activist
cleric - Relations
- Shabazz, Betty (wife)
Shabazz, Ilyasah (daughter) - Organisations
- Nation of Islam
Muslim Mosque, Inc.
Organization of Afro-American Unity
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Critiques
C'est un petit livre contenant deux discours sur les droits civiques des Noirs aux Etats-Unis, à savoir un discours de [[Malcolm X]] intitulé "Le Vote ou le Fusil" et un autre de [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy]], antérieur, intitulé quant à lui "Nous formons un seul et même pays". Deux visions très différentes pour une même opinion sur la quête des doits civiques. Deux discours puissants, forts, viscéraux. Malcolm X se lance dans un combat définitif, JFK essaie de changer la loi mais aussi la mentalité du moindre de ses compatriotes.
Dans mon opinion, ces textes n'ont rien perdu et sont toujours aussi importants. Cette collection de discours chez Points ne m'a jamais déçu : on connaît tous une phrase célèbre de l'un ou l'autre discours, mais peu les ont lus en entier, alors que ça vaut vraiment le détour.… (plus d'informations)
Dans mon opinion, ces textes n'ont rien perdu et sont toujours aussi importants. Cette collection de discours chez Points ne m'a jamais déçu : on connaît tous une phrase célèbre de l'un ou l'autre discours, mais peu les ont lus en entier, alors que ça vaut vraiment le détour.… (plus d'informations)
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In: L'Homme et la société, N. 2, 1966. pp. 187-188. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/homso_0018-4306_1966_num_2_1_984