A Marked Man: The Assassination of Malcolm X

by Matt Doeden

February 21, 1965. Controversial civil rights leader Malcolm X is gunned down during a speech in Manhattan. Few were shocked by the news of Malcolm X's death. Since 1952 the former member of the Nation of Islam had supported the Nation's philosophy of violence as the method to achieve justice for blacks in the United States. But in March 1964, after a major shift in his philosophy, Malcolm changed his message. He no longer agreed with the Nation of...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761354840
• ISBN13: 9780761354840
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary