The Autobiography of Malcolm X Brandon Boyd

I recently read the Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley. The book showed a very different view of the civil rights movement than most books, films etc. portray. Some activists chose more peaceful means of protesting against segregation like Martin Luther King Jr, while other civil rights activists, like Malcolm X, chose a more harsh approach. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to help whites understand, in a non-violent, way why treating individuals badly because of the color of their skin is wrong . Malcolm X, on the other hand, preached to fellow African-Americans about the years of atrocities that white people committed against them. Throughout the book Malcolm continuously referred to white people as "Devils" or, "Blue eyed devils." Today that might sound like a quite an inflammatory statement but I can understand why he said it because throughout his whole life he was treated terribly by whites because he was black. The book has some ups and downs, but once it gets started the transformation of Malcolm X is fascinating. The way they show him going from adapting and really assimilating to white culture to getting recruited to the nation of Islam and hating white people then accepting whites again really demonstrates how others influenced his opinions.