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“He had to earn his trust.”īut this narrative is a testament to the intimacy they developed over time. “I don’t think Malcolm was all that trusting of Alex Haley in the beginning,” he said in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles. 10, Laurence Fishburne - an Oscar-nominated actor whose roles have included Nelson Mandela and Justice Thurgood Marshall - knew he had a tall order ahead of him. Asked to narrate its first-ever unabridged audiobook recording, which Audible will release Sept. The resulting memoir has become a foundational document not just in the history of American civil rights, but in 20th-century thought. During all-night interviews in Haley’s cramped Greenwich Village studio, Malcolm X recalled his Omaha upbringing by parents who decried racism and supported Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalism his turn to hustling and crime as a young man in New York City and how he found, was transformed by and eventually departed from the Nation of Islam. Published in 1965, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was not, originally, Malcolm X’s idea.īut in 1963, Alex Haley, a writer who would later win the Pulitzer Prize for “Roots,” convinced his skeptical subject to share the story of his life.
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