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the autobiography of malcomn x:
his father was killed in the beginning and malcom was seperated from his family. he dropped out of school in the 4th grade. he was a hustler after he met some people at a bar in harlem. soon he was lindy hopping a lot and was a shoe shiner. then later he worked for the bar and then he started stealing with a couple others and was eventually caught. then his brother wilfred wrote to him telling him about elijah muhhammeds teaching. so malcom eventually became a muslum trying to convert every afro american he could. eventually the nation of islam grew and grew. he was in charge of mosque 7 in detroit. he was the nation of islams second in command according to everyone. he eventually married betty and had 3 daughters. this was around the time of the kennedy assassination. soon malcomn was suspended for 90 days from the nation but he knew he could not return seeing that people wanted to kill him. so he created muslum inc. and went to mecca paid by ella. after he visitted mecca and finding the hajj he went back to america with new knowledge about true islam. and he told everyone when he got back that the white men can not be blamed for the deeds of the past but of their own deeds they must. soon everyone was saying something about malcomn. in 1965 he had a meeting and told the security not to check people for weapons because it would make them uncomfortable. after the brother introduced malcomn a little fight started in the back distracting everyone and in the front row 3 stood up and shot malcomn. then he was dead and he was brought across the us and there were services so that people could pay there respects, eventually he was buried.

summer reading book 1