Book Review: Malcom X The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As told to Alex Haley Rags to riches usually brings to mind stories of people who rise from the poverty of the ghetto and rises to affluence and great wealth through sheer perseverance and grit. Well the Autobiography of Malcolm X as dictated to Alex Haley provides a rags to riches story of another kind - of a man who rises from the depths of depravity from the deepest guts of the ghetto to a great moral force that brought hundreds of thousands towards the discipline and purity of the religion of Islam in a land that has not yet heard of even the existence of such a religion - through introspection, perseverance, and sheer grit.
By: Beenish Khurshid Malcolm X was an American Civil Rights Revolutionary leader in Montreal, Quebec the 1950 and 1960s. While most Black rights advocates such as Martin Luther King Jr. took the stance of non-violence, Malcolm advocated for a more assertive and revolutionary way of thinking - advocating for the average black man to recognize his history, and to stand up and demand his rights. He was assassination on February 21, 1965, in New York City, New York, U.S. The rise of Islam in America's African population can in large part be attributed to Malcolm and his preaching. May God rest his soul in peace. “They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.” — Malcolm X “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.”
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