ed work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, first written in 1964. Mr. Haley had tape-recorded many hours of interviews with Malcolm X before he was assassinated. The autobiography has been reissued many times since Malcolm's death in 1965 and it still sells almost 200,000 copies each year.
Nearly three decades after his assassination, Malcolm X's words ring with prophecy. The radical black leader--whose short, fiery life ended in a blizzard of gunfire in 1965--has been reborn as a compelling symbol and teacher for a new generation of African-Americans. In multiple reincarnations, Malcolm, slain in Harlem when he was 39, exists as a pop culture trend, role model, political alternative and the subject of scholarly debate. He is the "X" on ubiquitous, colorful baseball caps, a face on T-shirts and the inspiration of rap s
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