RT Book
T1 Malcolm before X
T2 African American intellectual history
A1 Parr, Patrick
LA English
PP Amherst Boston
PB University of Massachusetts Press
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1920179852
AB "In February 1946, when the 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and street hustler in Boston. By the time of his parole in August 1952, he had transformed into a voracious reader, joined the Black Muslims, and was poised to become Malcolm X, one of the most prominent and important intellectuals of the civil rights era. While scholars and commentators have exhaustively detailed, analyzed, and debated Malcolm X's post-prison life, they have not explored these transformative six and a half transformative years in any depth. Utilizing a trove of previously overlooked documents, Patrick Parr immerses readers into the unique cultures of Charlestown State Prison, the Concord Reformatory, and the Norfolk Prison Colony where Malcolm devoured books, composed poetry, boxed, debated, and joined the Nation of Islam. This time in prison changed the course of Malcom's life and set the stage for a decade of antiracist activism that would fundamentally reshape American culture"-- Provided by publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN E185.97.L5
SN 9781685750886
SN 9781685750879
SN 1685750885
SN 1685750877
K1 Little family
K1 X, Malcolm : 1925-1965 : Imprisonment
K1 X, Malcolm : 1925-1965 : Childhood and youth
K1 State Prison Colony (Norfolk, Mass.) : Biography
K1 Black Muslims : Biography
K1 Prisoners : United States : Biography
K1 African American political activists : Biography
K1 African American prisoners : Rehabilitation
K1 African American criminals : Biography
K1 Activistes noirs américains - Biographies
K1 Black Muslims - Biographies
K1 Prisonniers - États-Unis - Biographies
K1 Criminels noirs américains - Biographies
K1 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
K1 Biographies