>> host: what do you remember about your father? >> guest: i wrote in my first book, my father coming home. six vote five. great presence. i remember the way he called my name with lots of authority just things like that. sharing cookies together. the rocking chair.

>> host: that dating kit. >> guest: fortunately i do not remember that. when i was writing i realize that it did have an impact because when michael came to visit us i was about four or five years old. i remember that it was traumatizing. i remember sighing uncontrollably. i knew that somehow that must have been indicative of the missing my father. parole will is mom's rather. and he was actually the president of the milwaukee branch of the marcus garvey movement. he held marcus garvey get out of jail back in the 1920's. a pastor, an activist, i

great preacher, all of these great things that instill values in children. >> host: where did you live and how did he die? >> guest: guys, well, killed by the black legion, i group with the kkk back in the 1920's during the great depression. and you know they put him, you know, not in the greatest situation, but he was killed did talk about in his autobiography. just really an invincible. the strength of the family. he would take his son with them when he was speaking to

the community about self-reliance, about perseverance, working hard, the importance of education, all of these things. >> host: what was malcolm levels lifelike? >> guest: my father's childhood was an exceptional you know, he had so many siblings played much like my own, it gives you the sense of, you know, tenacity camino, makes a good friend. both of the parents that would enable him to go on in his adult life. one of the greatest political strategists, a humanitarian us, just so many wonderful things because my father was so young. when the world learned of

malcolm x. he was only 29. he was killed at the age of 29. he made such a significant contribution in such a short lifetime. in 12 years, six volumes, just to he was. for me now as an adult i reflect on that sense of loneliness, you know, that sense that he must have really felt having sacrificed his life not asking for anything in return for the benefit of humanity so that we could move forward to a more egalitarian future. >> host: ilyasah shabazz, you have an illustration in here. >> guest: my father was a love for years old. his father was an activist. and he bought land at that time which was reserved for whites only an omaha, neb.

you know, they move from wisconsin to nebraska and michigan. my father became out of bags and he went to jail. he went to jail at 20. before he came out of jail in 1952, i don't know, however old. twenty-six, 27 years old. he became malcolm x, the national spokesman for the nation of islam. >> host: this is the

children's book. the very young child. >> guest: ended focus is on the values, important, the role of the mother, the role of the father, young, questionable south end of the you of of mother and nurturing her children, the importance of education, the love for learning. father being a provider, you know, the strength, and just instilling these values of, accountability, passion, all the things that would go on to exhibit to the world in his adult life preheat. >> host: degeneration today is to remove? >> guest: you know, i travel laureled. many different audiences.

young people, middle-aged. what i find is that there are many young people who are very much and san with malcolm. very much, you know, the legacy, you know, and there are some who are not. i think it is important for all of us who are conscious, who are educated, it is important that we educate the ones who are misinformed or, you know, her need guidance. >> host: plenty magnificent illustrations in this book. it's potentially illustrations were done by ag ford, and he is just phenomenal, phenomenal. beautiful, beautiful depictions of moments that were important to my father, that played key roles in my father's life.

>> guest: "malcolm x: the boy who grew up to become malcolm x". ilyasah shabazz is the author. >> c-span / coverage of the senate floor proceedings and keep the policy events. every weekend book tv now for 15 years the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. watch s in hd, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> the next three galleries are your chances of acquittal of the industry maria mary frances berry, former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights and will talk about race and gender equality in the u.s. and lesser-known champions of civil rights. the university of pennsylvania cancer and former chair of the organization of american historians is the author of

ten books including "black resistance/white law", "and justice for all," and "power in words". discipline mary frances berry coming in your book you write that most black americans have always been more american than white americans. sb two it is sort of like being more catholic than the pope. believing more in the values and principles that are laid out in the declaration of independence and in the preamble to the constitution . and the american ethos, and believing it fundamentally and using those principles as a way to try and ask for the progress on equality for them. that is what i mean. >> host: what is approved?