num_pages: 210
description: As a 14-year-old he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At 16 he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At 19 he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At 20 he was in prison.It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the name Malcolm X, and there he developed his beliefs about what being black means in America: beliefs that shook America then, and still shake America today.Few men in American history are as controversial or compelling as Malcolm X. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Walter Dean Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, portrays Malcolm X as prophet, dealer, convict, troublemaker, revolutionary, and voice of black militancy.
language: English
title: Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
titlecomplete: Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
characters: Malcolm X
genres: Historical, Biography, Politics, Nonfiction, Audiobook, American History, Biography Memoir, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 1355
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author Honor
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks