Shabazz, IIyasah
Summary: "In Charlestown State Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares while surviving life in a place unfit for humans, Malcolm drifts through his days, picking fights with fellow inmates and avoiding his family. But when he's introduced to the prison library, Malcolm realizes that the key to his freedom was within him all along. Now his dreams are not just...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SHABaldwin, James
Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.8 BALSummary: Biographical portrait documents the life of Malcolm X, tracing his career as both a black activist and leader of the Nation of Islam.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dove Audio 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN MALRoberts, Randy
Summary: "Freshly adapted for young readers, this in-depth portrait showcases the complex bond between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, revealing how Malcolm aided in molding Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali and helped him become an international symbol of Black pride and Black independence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROBShabazz, Ilyasah
Summary: Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's nothing but a pack of lies -- after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SHAMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: As a fourteen-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen, he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem, he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At nineteen, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At twenty, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MALX, Malcolm
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MALDorman, Jacob S.
Summary: "How the circuses, dance halls, and midways of the Gilded Age provided the cultural ferment and freedom that led to the creation of the Black Muslim movement in America"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.8 DORBaldwin, James
Summary: At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 BALBaldwin, James
Summary: At once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1995
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BALX, Malcolm
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1990