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Bradley, David. "Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America." Transition,vol.56, 1992: 20-46.
Dyson, Micheal Eric. "Malcolm and Martin." Transition, n.56, 1992: 48-59.
Hoyt, Charles. "The Five Face of Malcolm X." Negro American Literature Forum vol.4,n.4, winter 1970: 107-112.
Miller, Keith d. "Plymouth Rock Landed on Us: Malcolm X 's Whiteness Theory as a basis for alternative Literacy." College Compostitionand Communication vol.56,n.2, dec.2004: 199-222.
Painter, Nell Irvin. "Malcolm X across the Genres." The American Historical Review vol.98,n.2, april 1993: 432-439.
Smallwood, Andrew P. "The Intellectual Creativity and Public Discourse of Malcolm X: A Precursor to the Modern Black Studies Movement." journal of black studies v.36,n.2, nov. 2005: 248-263.
Weiner, Bernard. "Review." Film Quantity vol.26,n.2, winter 1972-73: 43-44.

Malcolm X and His Rise to Power
Malcolm X was one of the most dominate and influential African American leaders during the civil rights movement. Unlike Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who accumulated his mass of followers, through non-violence that had others means of protest such as; sit-in and boycotts. But I wonder how Malcolm X accumulated a majority his congregation? Was it through his theory of the white devil, was it through encouragement of Black is beautiful and militant philosophy, or was it through his teachings of Islam.
First lets begin with the preaching to the masses of African Americans Malcolm X’s theory “the idea of the white devil” Keith Miller characterizes whiteness as "relatively unchartered territory" Because for over a decade, according to Miller he gave hundreds of speeches to masses of people who generally lacked much formal education, he repeatedly and thoroughly exposed, interrogated, theorized, critiqued, and debunked whiteness as an epistemology and a rhetoric. He did so through a project that amounted to nothing less than dismantling and reconstructing



Bibliography: Bradley, David. "Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America." Transition,vol.56, 1992: 20-46. Dyson, Micheal Eric. "Malcolm and Martin." Transition, n.56, 1992: 48-59. Smallwood, Andrew P. "The Intellectual Creativity and Public Discourse of Malcolm X: A Precursor to the Modern Black Studies Movement." journal of black studies v.36,n.2, nov. 2005: 248-263.

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