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0-19 (Rew. 12-14-64) ws . - see MAKING HIS MARK trong diagnosis of America’s racial sickness in one Negro’s odyssey == ©! shan —_____ LY per —. . Conrad ___ THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X. With the ssaistance of Gale__ nom Alex Haley. illustrated. Grove Press. 455 pp. $7.50. ie. This odyssey of an American Negro in search of Sullivan , his identity and place in society really begins before Tavel =~ his bi years ago in Omaha, Neb. He was born Trotter 4 Malcolty’Little, the son of an educated mulatto West Tele Room Indian mother and a father who was a Baptist minister Holmes andy vey’s back-to-Africa movement the rest of the week. The first incident Malcolm recounts, as if it were his welcome to white America, occurred just before he was born. A party of Ku Klux Klanners galloped up to his house, threatened his mother and left a warning on Sundays and dedicated organizer for Marcus Gar- for his father ‘to stop spreading trouble among the good” Negroes and get out of town. They galloped into the night after smashing all the windows. A few years later the Klan was to make good on its threat by burning down the Littles’ Lansing, Mich., home be- cause Maloolm’s father refused to become an Uncle Tom. These were the first in a series of incidents of we racial violence, characteristic of that period, that were «a to haunt the nights of Malcolm and his family and een ee Teh BT Ah hang like a pall over the lives of Negroes in the North and South. Five of Reverend Little’s six brothers died by violence—four at the hands of white men, one = by lynching, and one shot down by Northern police officers. When Malcolm was six, his father was found cut in two by a trolley car with his head bashed in. Malcolm's father had committed “suicide,” the au« thorities said. Early in his life Malcolm concluded “that I too would die by violence . . . 1 do not expect . to live Jong enough to read this book.” Malcoim’s early life in the Midwest was not wholly defined by race. Until he went to Boston when he was 14, after his mother suffered «2 mental breakdown from bringing up cight children alone, his friends The Washington P ry yan f WEEK Times Herald” _ The Washington Daily News The Evening Star ° ! New York Herald Tribune were often white; there were few Negroes in the . ; smal] Midwestern towns where he grew up. He re- Ju \ New York Fournal-American New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader counts with pride how he was elected president of his eighth-grade class in an almost totally white school. But the race problem was always there, although 78 Malcolm, who was light-skinned, tried for a time to / think of himself as white or just like anyone cise. Even in his family life, color led to conflict that interfered with normal relationships, The Reverend Little was a fierce disctplinarian, but he never laid a hand on his. light-skinned son because, unconsciously, according to Malcolm, he had developed respect for white skin, On Date | a shite man, wea ashamed of his and. fevored /y 0-399 ZAV-A wv 144965 = _<S The Wall Street Journal The National Observer Pecple’s World Malcolm's ‘darker brothers and sisters. Malcolm wrote that he spent his life trying to purge this tainted white blndd of eaniee frac Ble veins PEE Ses SPIE SaRR ERS veins. _ KOT FT r¢ 2RDED |