Malcolm X. Rights Activist and Nation of Islam Leader

More than a string of fact and dates, the Essential Lives series reveals the influences that shaped each individual and how, in turn, ea...

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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare

This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Lu...

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Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

In September 1937, three years before his death, Marcus Garvey assembled a small group of his most trusted organizers. For almost a quart...

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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

The Horn Book called this classic biography of Harriet Tubman an "unusually well-written and moving life of the 'Moses of her pe...

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The Death and Life of Malcolm X

The Death and Life of Malcolm X provides a dramatic portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century. Focusing...

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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triu...

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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This intere...

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Class Struggle In Africa by Kwame Nkrumah

Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. T...

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Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies

The provocative debate about Malcolm X’s legacy that emerged after the publication of Manning Marable’s 2011 biography raised critical que...

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Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive mi...

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The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, h...

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The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest

Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union—the most prestigious student debating organization ...

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Living in the Era of Revolution: The Words of Malcolm X

Malcolm X's everlasting legacy is celebrated through his quotes, speeches and letters. Even to this day, many of his views remain rele...

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The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X

On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed. Now, based on fifteen years of research, including hundreds of interviews and the exa...

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The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution

This unique psychobiographical study integrates a wide and subtle view of the history of white racism and the black liberation movement wi...

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Black Moses Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia...

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Revolutionary Path by Kwame Nkrumah

This book, compiled durting the last two years of the author's life, demonstrates the growth, development and consistency of Kwame Nkr...

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The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm

Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders...

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From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me

An embarrassing consecration by a disciple whom Malcolm X redeemed from self-hatred, degradation, alcohol and drugs. Jamal enshrines him a...

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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilatio...

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