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Books by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Malcolm X (1925–1965) was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska. After years of poverty, crime, and imprisonment, he converted to the Nation of Islam and became its most prominent national spokesperson during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He broke with the Nation in 1964, made the Hajj to Mecca, and founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity before his assassination in New York in February 1965. Alex Haley (1921–1992) was an American journalist and author best known for Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). The autobiography was assembled from his conversations with Malcolm and published months after the assassination.