Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X Malcolm X, one of the most complex and enigmatic African-American leaders ever, was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 and died in 1965; Malcolm’s life has increasingly acquired a mythic stature (p.3). Malcolm X was one of the Civil Rights Movements most loved and also revered leaders and M. Dyson looks to explore some of the myth and fact about such an influential man. M. Dyson starts …showed first 75 words of 819 total…

…showed last 75 words of 819 total…a man I really didn’t know much about and it showed me that Malcolm X was categorized as many things but what he really was, just a person trying to fight for a cause. What I really got from the book though was the way that Malcolm is being portrayed in today’s youth and that a lot of people really don’t understand what Malcolm X should really stand for in their lives.