Malcolm before X / Patrick Parr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parr, Patrick, author.

Series:

African American intellectual history.

African American intellectual history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.

X, Malcolm.

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965--Imprisonment.

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965--Childhood and youth.

African American political activists--Biography.

African American political activists.

African American prisoners--Rehabilitation.

African American prisoners.

Black Muslims--Biography.

Black Muslims.

Prisoners--United States--Biography.

Prisoners.

African American criminals--Biography.

African American criminals.

State Prison Colony (Norfolk, Mass.)--Biography.

State Prison Colony (Norfolk, Mass.).

Little family.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Part I. Outside. B & E, December 1945 to January 1946

Origins: Africa to Omaha, 1815 to 1925

The middle child: Omaha to Mason, 1925 to 1940

The sirens of Roxbury: Mason to Charlestown, 1940 to 1946 ; Part II. Inside. The hell of Charlestown, February 27, 1946, to January 10, 1947

The purgatory of Concord, January 10, 1947, to March 31, 1948

The paradise of Norfolk, March 1948 to January 1949

The fall of Little, January 1949 to March 1950

The rise of X, March 1950 to September 1952.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781685750886

1685750885