Ilyasah honors her enormous courage and strength, raising six little girls alone, keeping alive the memory of her beloved husband, developing her own career and urging her daughters to fulfill their own destinies. She died in 1997, burned by a fire started by the 12-year-old troubled grandson who lived with her. Betty Shabazz, who is the real focus of Ilyasah's memoir. Her mother, pregnant with twins, covered little Ilyasah with her own body that horrible day. Ilyasah was two years old when her father was gunned down. The Autobiography of Malcolm X is frequently required reading in high school courses, and certainly this memoir by one of his six daughters, complete with a section of b/w photographs, will interest many. Growing up X a memoir by the daughter of Malcolm X.
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