9 must-read history books like Malcolm X: The FBI File by Clayborne Carson

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Malcolm X: The FBI File

By: Clayborne Carson

3.95

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

The FBI opened its file on Malcolm X shortly after his release from a Boston prison in March 1953. …

If you liked the history plot in Malcolm X: The FBI File by Clayborne Carson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary

By: George Breitman

4.13

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Malcolm X's political evolution after he left the Nation of Islam. Analyzes the conflicts that resu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X

By: Peter Bailey , Rodnell P. Collins , Peter Bailey

3.86

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Ella Little Collins saw her brother Malcolm through some of the most significant times of his life,… read more

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3. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

By: David Deida

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

Similar categories in Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X book and Clayborne Carson's Malcolm X: The FBI File

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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6. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

By: George Breitman , Malcolm X

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life.… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction

8. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther

By: None

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's around 7:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago,… read more

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9. Letter to My Daughter

By: Maya Angelou

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wi… read more

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10. The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm X

By: Malcolm X , Benjamin Karim

4.73

Format: None pages,

Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic a… read more

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11. Letter from the Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

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12. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

By: Manning Marable

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Selected by The New York Times Book Reviewas a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the def… read more

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13. By Any Means Necessary

By: Malcolm X

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Speeches tracing the evolution of Malcolm X's views on political alliances, women's rights, interma… read more

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14. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

By: Les Payne

4.34

Format: 612 pages, Hardcover

Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."

-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

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16. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book and Clayborne Carson's Malcolm X: The FBI File

  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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17. How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

By: D.L. Hughley

4.04

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popul… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"That's the essence of being profiled: judging someone on first impressions. So again, you are being asked to do better than the cop who pulled you over for the "broken taillight". Don't you go around…"

-D.L. Hughley, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

"Be patient; don't judge a book by its racist, oppressive cover. Any police shooting is bound to be investigated, so wait for all the facts to be known and dismissed. In the end, it might be that whit…"

-D.L. Hughley, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

"Every few months, white people trot out a new title in a series called Cops Keep Killing People. Each new release has the latest tragic scene on the cover. It sure seems to be the same book recycled …"

-D.L. Hughley, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

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18. Malcolm X: The FBI File

By: Clayborne Carson

3.95

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

The FBI opened its file on Malcolm X shortly after his release from a Boston prison in March 1953. … read more

Similar categories in Clayborne Carson's Malcolm X: The FBI File book and Clayborne Carson's Malcolm X: The FBI File

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • united states
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Remembering Malcolm: The Story of Malcolm X from Inside the Muslim Mosque by His Assistant Minister Benjamin Karin by David Gallen

19. Remembering Malcolm: The Story of Malcolm X from Inside the Muslim Mosque by His Assistant Minister Benjamin Karin

By: David Gallen

4.15

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

A chronicle of Malcolm X's life, work, politics, and assassination by his first assistant minister read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Garvey

20. Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

By: Marcus Garvey

4.49

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most … read more

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21. From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me

By: Hakim A. Jamal

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • politics

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James Baldwin

3.54

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George Breitman , Malcolm X

4.67

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Jonathan Eig

4.67

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Les Payne

4.34

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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4.36

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4.80

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3.54

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