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Malcolm X: A Search for Truth Educational Resource Guide

WEB SITES

  • www.schomburgcenter.org
    The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents Malcolm X: A Search for Truth. Find more information about the collection, the exhibition, the teachers’ guide, and public programs.
  • www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/index.htm
    Malcolm X Official Web site.
  • www.brothermalcolm.net
    Abdul Alkalimat, ed., Malcolm X: A Research Site (launched May 19, 1999: University of Toledo and Twenty-First Century Books).
  • www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/malcolmx
    Malcolm X: Make it Plain. This in-depth film portrait goes straight to the heart, mind, and message of one of the modern era’s most complex figures.
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/index.html
    Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind. This “American Experience” site explores the influential Black Nationalist leader and his movement. Malcolm X’s parents were followers of Marcus Garvey.
  • http://www.noi.org/
    The Nation of Islam home page.
  • http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/index.html
    The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University. Though many parts of this Web site are incomplete, it provides a biography of Malcolm X plus a timeline and lists of resources.

BOOKS

Malcolm X in his own words:

  • Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley: The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove, 1965.
  • February 1965: The Final Speeches. New York: Pathfinder, 1992.
  • The End of White World Supremacy. Arcade Books, 1989.
  • Malcolm X on Afro-America History. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1990.
  • Malcolm X Speaks Out. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1992.
  • Malcolm X Speeches: January 1965. New York: Pathfinder Press, 2002.
  • Malcolm X Talks to Young People. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1991.
  • Two Speeches by Malcolm X. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1990.

Other books:

  • Barboza, Steven. American Jihad: Islam after Malcolm X. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
  • Breitman, George. The Last Year of Malcolm X.
  • Breitman, George. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements. New York: Grove Press, 1990.
  • Carson, Claybourne. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader. New York: Penguin, 1991.
  • Carson, Claybourne. Malcolm X: The FBI File. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991.
  • Clarke, John Henrik, ed. Malcolm X: The Man and His Times. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
  • Clegg, Claude Andrew. An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
  • Collins, Rondell P. Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X. Secaucus, New Jersey: Carol Publishing, 1998.
  • Cone, James H. Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1991.
  • Davis, Thulani. Malcolm X: The Great Photographs. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1992.
  • DeCaro, Louis A. On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
  • Dyson, Michael Eric. Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X. Oxford University Press, 1996
  • Epps, Archie ed. Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
  • Essien-Udom, E.U. Black Nationalism: A Search for an Identity in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
  • Evanzz, Karl. Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1993.
  • Evanzz, Karl. The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.
  • Gallen, David. Malcolm X As They Knew Him. Del Rey, 1996.
  • Gardell, Mattias. In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.
  • Goldman, Peter. The Death and Life of Malcolm X, 2nd ed. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
  • Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer. Voices of Freedom: Oral Histories from the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Bantam, 1990.
  • Harding, Vincent, Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis. We Changed the World: African Americans, 1945–1970. The Young Oxford History of African Americans, v. 9. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Hill, Robert A. Marcus Garvey: Life and Lessons. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987.
  • Jenkins, Robert L. and Myfana Donald Tryman, ed. The Malcolm X Encyclopedia. Westport, Connecticut, 2002.
  • Karim, Benjamin. Remembering Malcolm. Carroll & Graf, 1992.
  • Lincoln, C. Eric. The Black Muslims in America, 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994.
  • Lomax, Louis E. To Kill A Black Man. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1987.
  • Lomax, Louis E. When the Word Is Given: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
  • Perry, Bruce ed. Malcolm X: The Last Speeches. Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1991.
  • Randall, Dudley ed. For Malcolm: Poems on the Death and Life of Malcolm X. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969.
  • Rickford, Russell. Betty Shabazz: A Life before and after Malcolm X. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003.
  • Sales, William. From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro American Unity. South End Press, 1994.
  • Shabazz, Ilyasah. Growing Up X. The Random House Publishing Group, 2002.
  • Strickland, William, et al. Malcolm X: Make It Plain. New York: Viking, 1994.
  • Turner, Richard Brent. Islam in the African-American Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
  • Vincent, Theodore. “ The Garveyite Parents of Malcolm X.” The Black Scholar, vol. 20, no. 2, April 1989.
  • Wood, Joe ed. Malcolm X: In Our Own Image. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

FILMS & VIDEOS

  • Malcolm X: Make It Plain. Blackside, Inc./Roja Productions and Public Broadcasting Service, 1994
  • Malcolm X. The Black Americans of Achievement Video Collection, Schlessinger Video Productions, 1992.
  • Malcolm X: His Own Story As It Really Happened. Warner Home Video, 1972.
  • The Life and Death of Malcolm X. Simitar Video, 1992.
  • Malcolm X. Spike Lee, dir., 40 Acres, 1992.
  • Malcolm X: A Search for Identity. Biography, A&E Television Networks, 1999.
  • Malcolm X. DVD Special Edition, Warner Home Video, 2005.
  • The Speeches of Malcolm X. The Speeches Collection, MPI Home Video, 1997.
  • Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965 to 1985. “The Time Has Come (1964–1965).” Blackside, Inc., and Public Broadcasting Service, 1989.

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