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          Virgil Thomson trained first as a pianist and organist, then studied composition at Harvard University and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris..

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          The Autobiography of Malcolm X 
          Malcolm X and Alex Haley, 1965
          Random House
          527 pp.
          ISBN-13: 9780345376718


          Summary
          With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs.

          Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one sounded more urgently, more passionately than the rest.



          Malcolm X—once called the most dangerous man in America—challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it.

          His autobiography, Virgil Thomson, ap- peared in , and four collections of his reviews and Sunday es- says were published between and

        1. His autobiography, Virgil Thomson, ap- peared in , and four collections of his reviews and Sunday es- says were published between and
        2. In an autobiographical essay, Purdy stated that his book *Eustace Chisholm and the Works* "won the strong admiration of the noted composer Virgil Thomson, who.
        3. Virgil Thomson trained first as a pianist and organist, then studied composition at Harvard University and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
        4. Biographical Sketch of Virgil Thomson.
        5. Reading them all, after the autobiographies of course, gives a rounded portrait; and for a full view all are needed.

          6. And his enduring message is as relevant today as when he first delivered it.

          In his autobiography's searing pages, Malcolm X the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley.

          In a unique collaboration, Alex Haley worked w