Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly - Softcover

Myers, Walter Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060562013 ISBN 13: 9780060562014

Publisher: Amistad, 2020

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: December 2003 Pages: 40 in Publisher: Amistad I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being. neither white black. our own. of nor red This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X of ought to people of color. He lived by the idea that black people should demand equality by taking their lives and futures into their own hands. With guidance from the religious leader Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm became one of the most powerful leaders of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. and his beliefs live on today. Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers. together with illustrator Leonard Jenkins. delivers a straightforward and compelling portrayal of one of America's most influential figures.

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Synopsis:

We never can win freedom and justice and equality until we are doing something for ourselves! Malcolm X learned from his father that black people should demand equality by taking their lives and futures into their own hands. Malcolm believed in this idea. It was one he lived by. Though Malcolm faced hard times growing up and even went to jail, he turned his life around. He read books and combined lessons he'd learned from his father and from the religious leader Elijah Muhammad. Soon Malcolm would become a powerful leader in the struggle for blacks to achieve equality. Malcolm died tragically when he was only thirty-nine, but his beliefs live on today. Walter Dean Myers' evenhanded narrative and Leonard Jenkins' striking paintings celebrate the man and the fiery message he brought to all people of color.

About the Author:

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amistad
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0060562013
• ISBN 13: 9780060562014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Jenkins Leonard