Alex Haley

By the time of his tragic murder in 1965, Malcolm X was world famous as the "angriest black man in America". From hustling, cocaine addiction, and armed violence in the ghettos of Harlem, he experienced a dramatic prison conversion that led him to the fervour of the Black Muslims. Speaking out to millions of oppressed blacks, he brought new hope...

The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins—a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature. Discover Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins—a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature. Tracing his ancestry through six generations of architects, lawyers, blacksmiths, farmers,...