Betty Shabazz-A Biography: Her Life With Malcolm X and Fight to Preserve His Legacy

by Rickford, Russell J.

• ISBN13: 9781570716218
• ISBN10: 1570716218
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc

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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