The Portable Malcolm X Reader

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Manning Marable and Garrett Felber Klappentext A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Manning Marable Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including articles from major newspapers and underground presses, oral histories, police reports, and FBI files, to shine a brighter light on Malcolm's life and times. Conceived as both a companion to the biography and a standalone volume, and assembled by Marable and his key researcher, Garrett Felber, prior to Marable's untimely death, The Portable Malcolm X Reader presents an invaluable portrait of Malcolm X. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Leseprobe ARREST AND PRISON Malcolm's move to the Roxbury district of Boston opened his eyes to a world drastically different from that of the rural Midwest. Over the next four years, he held a variety of jobs that introduced him to urban nightlife and black celebrities, as well as to dope peddlers and pimps. As a shoe shiner at the Roseland State Ballroom, he met jazz musicians and entertainers; as a cook on the New Haven railroad, he traveled to Harlem, where he worked at the notorious jazz club Small's Paradise and the less glamorous Jimmy's Chicken Shack; he even performed part-time at Abe Goldstein's Lobster Pond in midtown Manhattan under the stage name Jack Carlton. In addition to this string of odd jobs, Malcolm also continued the life of petty crime he had begun in Lansing. His first arrest came at the age of nineteen, when he stole his aunt's fur coat and pawned it for five dollars. For this indiscretion, his sister Ella promptly called the police and turned him in. The following year he brazenly robbed an acquaintance, Douglas Haynes, at gunpoint in Detroit, prompting his brother Wilfred to post a bond of a thousand dollars before Malcolm then fled Michigan and the warrant for his arrest. What sealed Malcolm's criminal fate, though, was a string arrest and prison 35 of robberies in the Boston area during the Christmas season of 1945. His prison record suggests that he, along with his Armenian girlfriend, Bea Caragulian; her younger sister, Joyce; a third woman, named Kora Marderosian; and two of his friends, Francis Sonny Brown and Malcolm Shorty Jarvis, robbed as many as eight homes between December 11, 1945, and his arrest on January 12, 1946. They stole a motley assortment of goods, ranging from clocks, jewelry, and fur coats to twenty pounds of sugar and a swig of whiskey, ultimately valued at over ten thousand dollars, from Boston-area homes and resold the wares in New York City. Ultimately, it was Malcolm who was responsible for the group's arrest (with the exception of Brown, who somehow eluded police). He amateurishly took a stolen watch to a repair shop and the police were waiting when he came to pick it up. Since he was carrying a loaded, unregistered gun, the offi cers agreed to waive the charge if he would turn in the rest of the gang, which he did. Malcolm and his partner in crime Shorty Jarvis were incarcerated at the oldest penitentiary in continuous use, Charlestown State Prison. The prison, best known for having held anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti before their execution, was de...

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Edited by Manning Marable and Garrett Felber

Klappentext
A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Manning Marable

Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including articles from major newspapers and underground presses, oral histories, police reports, and FBI files, to shine a brighter light on Malcolm's life and times. Conceived as both a companion to the biography and a standalone volume, and assembled by Marable and his key researcher, Garrett Felber, prior to Marable's untimely death, The Portable Malcolm X Reader presents an invaluable portrait of Malcolm X.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Zusammenfassung
A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning Marable

Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including articles from major newspapers and underground presses, oral histories, police reports, and FBI files, to shine a brighter light on Malcolm's life and times. Conceived as both a companion to the biography and a standalone volume, and assembled by Marable and his key researcher, Garrett Felber, prior to Marable's untimely death, The Portable Malcolm X Reader presents an invaluable portrait of Malcolm X.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Leseprobe
ARREST AND PRISON

Malcolm’s move to the Roxbury district of Boston opened his eyes to a world drastically different from that of the rural Midwest. Over the next four years, he held a variety of jobs that introduced him to urban nightlife and black celebrities, as well as to dope peddlers and pimps. As a shoe shiner at the Roseland State Ballroom, he met jazz musicians and entertainers; as a cook on the New Haven railroad, he traveled to Harlem, where he worked at the notorious jazz club Small’s Paradise and the less glamorous Jimmy’s Chicken Shack; he even performed part-time at Abe Goldstein’s Lobster Pond in midtown Manhattan under the stage name Jack Carlton. In addition to this string of odd jobs, Malcolm also continued the life of petty crime he had begun in Lansing. His first arrest came at the age of nineteen, when he stole his aunt’s fur coat and pawned it for five dollars. For this indiscretion, his sister Ella promptly called the police and turned him in. The following year he brazenly robbed an acquaintance, Douglas Haynes, at gunpoint in Detroit, prompting his brother Wilfred to post a bond of a thousand dollars before Malcolm then fled Michigan and the warrant for his arrest.

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