Liza read and liked Peezy's review of The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley:

"This book is in my Top 5 of all time.

Oh yeah, I'm a white guy from Tennessee.

Before reading this, I knew very little about Malcolm X. I knew very little about the black-revolution of the 50's and 60's peroid. I was like Chri...more This book is in my Top 5 of all time.

Oh yeah, I'm a white guy from Tennessee.

Before reading this, I knew very little about Malcolm X. I knew very little about the black-revolution of the 50's and 60's peroid. I was like Chris Rock says in one of his stand-up acts: when it comes to black history, the only answer I knew to anything was "Martin Luther King".

But not only is this book an eye-opening account of the racial divide of that time, it's an open and honest look at an absolutely amazing man who rose from poverty and crime, only to turn his life around in prison due to Islam. His story was sooooooo interesting, it's an absolute shame that he was murdered just as he was beginning to see that his long-preached white-hatred was just as wrong as racism towards blacks.

I'm really tired and starting to feel lazy so I won't ramble on much more, but in short, this is one of the best books I have ever read, and should be required reading in schools when discussing the Civil Rights movement. It's books like this and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States that should be given to high schoolers rather than the uninformative bare-bones textbooks they use now.

Spike Lee said "This is the most important book I have ever read."

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