Manning Marable

We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he…

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Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time…

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There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of…

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The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all…

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Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are…

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[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of…

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Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced…

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In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a…

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I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would…

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The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy…

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Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the…

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What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book…

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At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

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“To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design,…

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Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long…

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I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and…

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I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three…

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One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you…

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[Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America…

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The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in…

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Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.

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The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later…

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I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.

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The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].

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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

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