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Title: Excellent supplemental video
Review: For anyone who has read The Autobiography of Malcolm X and would like to put a face with some of the names, this video is an excellent start. It contains personal interviews conducted by Mike Wallace with Malcolm's half-sister Ella, as well as his friend Malcolm Jarvis, referred to in the autobiography as "Shorty." It also provides a look at Harlem and Boston in the 1930s and 1940s, providing a glimpse of the places Malcolm frequented as a young "hipster." The video follows Malcolm's life chronologically, and contains excerpts from some of his famous speeches and television interviews, while balancing it with commentary from members of the Nation of Islam who were glad to see him leave in 1963. For anyone who has an interest in this topic and would like to learn more, look no further than than this video. It makes a great supplement to Malcolm's autobiography and could be used by history and English teachers as a supplement to Civil Rights and Malcolm X units.
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