I formed a team to burglarize houses to make money. We started to burglarize houses and sent the goods to a fence. The fence would pay us cash for the goods. On one of our burglaries, I found this good watch and kept it. When I went to try and fix the watch, I found out that the owner of the watch alerted the jewelers to look out for the watch. They arrested me on …showed first 75 words of 1603 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1603 total…says that the reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. I also agree with this. This book did so many good things for the African American community. It showed people what was really going on with African American people.