Malcolm X: The Assassination

by Michael Friedly

On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X knew the end was near. For months he had been outrunning armed Muslims who wanted to kill him for breaking with Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, and defaming his name. And the strain showed as he moved to the podium in Harlem's Audubon Ballroom where a crowd of four hundred had gathered for a public rally -- only to witness Malcolm's X's violent end.

Malcolm The assassination explores the conspiracy theories that found the FBI and CIA responsible for the murder, examines the stories of the two Muslim brothers from a New York mosque who were wrongly convicted of the crime, and provides an in-depth analysis of Malcolm X relationship with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.

Now, three decades later, the controversy behind the assassination still rages in today's headlines, and the unresolved circumstances of Malcolm's tragic death continue to create a haunting legacy for us all.

Genres: History

294 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 1, 1992

Reviews

[Olutosin]

Reading this book furnished me with the needed truth about the life and death of the man called Malcolm X and how he was gruesomely murdered by the same people who once revered him. I can't help but wonder, how selfless and committed Malcolm X must have been to his boss; Elijah Muhammad to the extent that when his boss lived in luxury Malcolm X on the other hand barely survived. I am looking forward to read Malcolm X biography soon and I am hoping to be enchanted same way or more the way this book have done to me.

[E. L. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not what I expected but a good read.