Malcolm X’s CV was originally published on October 29, 1965, nine months after the civil rights leader’s murder, and it relates the tale and lays out the fundamentals of his legacy.
The idea of the CV of Malcolm X did not come to himself but from the publishing house Dub Dai, who asked the journalist Alex Halley to do the project, Malcolm X was skeptical of the idea, and Alex Halley later narrated that even after he started the book’s meetings, it was difficult to keep According to the Hittoria website, the biography is more concerned with him as a person than with Islam as a whole and Aliga Muhammad as its leader.
The Book of Roots author Alex Haley and Malcolm X, who publicly disavowed Islam and led the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca while writing the CV, are now thought to have collaborated on it. On February 21, 1965, two days after one of the correspondents reported that the Nation of Islam was actively attempting to kill him, Malcolm X was assassinated at an event in New York City’s Odoubon Hall.
The same book tells the entire life of Malcolm X, starting with his childhood memories of his mother, who was ultimately transferred to a psychiatric hospital, and ended with his involvement in organized crime and subsequent prison, where he joined the nation of Islam and continued with him, Eliga Muhammad.
Critics compared the CV to St. Augustine’s confessions since both books depict the tale of a lost young man who undergoes a religious conversion.
Malcolm X rose to prominence in the civil rights struggle and even achieved icon status through his work with the nation of Islam and his support for the Black Authority.
The CV of Malcolm X was one of the best -selling books and the book has always been considering reading for civil rights activists and still constitutes the basis for the inheritance of the permanent Malcolm X..
The story of publishing the book of the biography of Malcolm X after 9 months of his assassination .. What was inside it?
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