Betty Shabazz-A Biography: Her Life With Malcolm X and Fight to Preserve His Legacy
by Rickford, Russell J.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-03-01
Publisher(s): Sourcebooks Inc
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Summary
A remarkable story of courage, strength and struggle follows the life of Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, as she evolves into the unspoken leader of that tragic sorority of widows: Coretta Scott King, Myrlie Evers, and others.
Author Biography
Russell J. Rickford is a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Howard University. He was born in Guyana and currently lives in New York City, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia University
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction: A Miracle in the Desert | p. xiii |
| A Brass Valentine | p. 1 |
| A Velvet Glove | p. 23 |
| Leaving the Grave | p. 41 |
| Windows of the Heart | p. 71 |
| Sinews of Independence | p. 89 |
| A Perilous Orbit | p. 117 |
| Foresight | p. 139 |
| Revelations | p. 163 |
| The Death Card | p. 195 |
| After the Winter | p. 235 |
| Bahiyah | p. 275 |
| Reconstruction | p. 293 |
| Humanist | p. 327 |
| "Dr. Shabazz" | p. 357 |
| Journey to Respectability | p. 383 |
| Repercussion | p. 407 |
| Celebrity | p. 441 |
| Mother's Day | p. 479 |
| Starting Over | p. 521 |
| Epilogue: Homegoing | p. 545 |
| Notes | p. 549 |
| Index | p. 619 |
| About the Author | p. 634 |
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