[Fred Nerks]

While Malcolm X had begun to embrace a more orthodox Islamic approach in his last days, he came to represent "the most important bridge between the American people and more than one billion Muslims throughout the world" in part because "before immigration law reform in 1965, the most prominent group of self-identified American Muslims was the heretical Nation of Islam," Marable writes

'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,' drawing on previously unavailable archival sources, offers new details into the life of Malcolm X, shown above with King Faisal in Saudi Arabia in 1964.

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