The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm XBy Alex HaleyProtagonistMalcolm XAntagonistElijah MuhammadFavorite CharacterMalcolm X. Least Favorite CharacterThe Honorable Elijah MuhammadExpositionBorn in Omaha, NebraskaGrows up in Lansing Michigan, of where his father is killed.Moves to Boston with half sister.Moves alone to Harlem.Moves back to Boston.Goes to prison.

Converts to Islam in Prison.Becomes MinisterReceives PublicitySilenced by NOIMeccaAfrican DiplomatsAmericaAssasinationRising ActionMalcolm X silenced by his envious religious organization/political movement The Nation of Islam.ClimaxMalcolm makes a pilgrimage to Mecca.He travels around Africa speaking to many ambassadors.He returns and within a few weeks is assassinated (As told by author/eyewitness Alex Haley).Falling ActionHis Funeral and investigations.ResolutionAlex Haleys Epilogue refelecting his affects of American society.Setting1925-1965During his lifetime America had major problems with racism.He travels around the country, but he spends a major part of his time in Harlem, New York.Harlem, New York was a central place for political Afro-American movements.

Major ThemesRacism and Malcolms changing of perspectiveMalcolms pointing out the similarities of Hustling and ActivismThe basic rights of being human

Rating9 out of 10This book has a lot of great insight, and things to really think about, through commentary of a chronological story of his own personal life and experiences.RacismOrigin of ManOut-of-Africa and Multi-regional TheoryReligious Explanations

(OUT-OF-AFRICA THEORY)Roots of RacismGerman science and black racismFalse and biased studies (beware)(Haas)

Annexed Namibia Afro-German Genocide

Head of a Nama man who died at Shark Island concentration camp.(Gallatly)Hate GroupsVideoRecent Growth of Hate GroupsPresidential Election 2008

(Southern Poverty Law Center)And(Obama Alert)SongThe Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol Bob Dylan

William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie CarrollWith a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring fingerAt a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'And the cops were called in and his weapon took from himAs they rode him in custody down to the stationAnd booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murderBut you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsTake the rag away from your faceNow ain't the time for your tears.

William Zanzinger who at twenty-four yearsOwns a tobacco farm of six hundred acresWith rich wealthy parents who provide and protect himAnd high office relations in the politics of MarylandReacted to his deed with a shrug of his shouldersAnd swear words and sneering and his tongue it was snarlingIn a matter of minutes on bail was out walkingBut you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsTake the rag away from your faceNow ain't the time for your tears.

Hattie Carroll was a maid in the kitchenShe was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten childrenWho carried the dishes and took out the garbageAnd never sat once at the head of the tableAnd didn't even talk to the people at the tableWho just cleaned up all the food from the tableAnd emptied the ashtrays on a whole other levelGot killed by a blow, lay slain by a caneThat sailed through the air and came down through the roomDoomed and determined to destroy all the gentleAnd she never done nothing to William ZanzingerAnd you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsTake the rag away from your faceNow ain't the time for your tears.

In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavelTo show that all's equal and that the courts are on the levelAnd that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuadedAnd that even the nobles get properly handledOnce that the cops have chased after and caught 'emAnd that ladder of law has no top and no bottomStared at the person who killed for no reasonWho just happened to be feelin' that way witout warnin'And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguishedAnd handed out strongly, for penalty and repentanceWilliam Zanzinger with a six-month sentenceOh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsvBury the rag deep in your faceFor now's the time for your tears.

Works CitedGellatly, Mike. KKK will hold rally in Clearwater. Aiken Standard (SC) 23 Feb. 2010: Newspaper Source. EBSCO. Web. 1 Mar. 2010.Haas, Franois. German science and black racism--roots of the Nazi Holocaust. FASEB Journal 22.2 (2008): 332-337. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 1 Mar. 2010.Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, by arrangement with Grove Press, 1973, 1973.OUT-OF-AFRICA THEORY." (n.d.): Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. EBSCO. Web. 1 Mar. 2010.Obama Alert: The Disgrace of it All.(n.d.): The Knights Party, USA. 1 Mar. 2010Southern Poverty Law Center. Teaching-tolerance, 2010. Web. 1 Mar. 2010

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