Examines one of the most controversial and heroic leaders of the 20th century. Essays discuss how Malcolm X affected the world in which he lived and how the influence of people, issues, and events shaped his development as an international figure.

This study focuses on the life, ideas, and social activism of Malcolm X. It provides a compendium of essays that look at Malcolm X in light of advancing studies’ appraisal of him. With a historical perspective, this volume provides a contemporary approach to appraising the life of Malcolm X from an interdisciplinary matrix using paradigms of conceptual and narrative structural analysis.

With the thoroughly researched and passionately drawn Malcolm X, Helfer and award-winning artist Randy DuBurke capture Malcolm Little's extraordinary transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.