They called him the 'angriest black man in America'.. . Celebrated & vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men & women the equality & respect denied them by their white neighbours Malcolm X inspired as many people in the United States as he caused to fear him. His remarkable autobiography completed just before his murder in 1965 ranges from Omaha & Michigan to Harlem & Mecca & tells of a young disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addition robbery & prison was only reversed by his belief in the rights struggle for black America & his conversion to the Nation of Islam. Not only is this an enormously important record of the Civil Rights Movement in America but also the scintillating story of a man who refused to allow anyone to tell him who or what he was.