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Payne, Les, 1941-
Subjects
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
Black Muslims -- Biography.
Black nationalism -- United States.
Muslims, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
National Book Awards.
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Payne, Les, 1941-
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
Black Muslims -- Biography.
Black nationalism -- United States.
Muslims, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
National Book Awards.
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The
dead
are
arising
: the
life
of
Malcolm
X
/ Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
by
Payne, Les, 1941-
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020.
Call #:
921 X999p
Subjects
X
,
Malcolm
, 1925-1965.
Black Muslims -- Biography.
Black nationalism -- United States.
Muslims, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
National Book Awards.
ISBN:
9781631491665 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Life
of
Malcolm
X
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xix, 612 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"An epic biography of
Malcolm
X
finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known
Malcolm
X-all living siblings of the
Malcolm
Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of
Malcolm
X
, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic biography that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase
Malcolm
X
used when he saw his Hartford followers stir with purpose, as if the
dead
were truly
arising
, to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting
Malcolm
's
life
not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the
life
of one of the twentieth century's most politically relevant figures "from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary." In tracing
Malcolm
X
's
life
from his Nebraska birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled from
Malcolm
's Depression-era youth, describing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who continued to instill black pride in her children after Earl's death. Filling each chapter with resonant drama, Payne follows
Malcolm
's exploits as a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awakening and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a Massachusetts penitentiary. With a biographer's unwavering determination, Payne corrects the historical record and delivers extraordinary revelations-from the unmasking of the mysterious NOI founder "Fard Muhammad," who preceded Elijah Muhammad; to a hair-rising scene, conveyed in cinematic detail, of
Malcolm
and Minister Jeremiah
X
Shabazz's 1961 clandestine meeting with the KKK; to a minute-by-minute account of
Malcolm
X
's murder at the Audubon Ballroom. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The
Dead
Are
Arising
is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of
Malcolm
X
to the African American freedom struggle."--From publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2021.
Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2021.
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Payne, Tamara.
Holds:
1
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Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
921 X999p
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