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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary

by Walter Dean Myers

210 pages · 1993

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Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.

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