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Books by & About Malcolm X
Malcolm X:
The Man and His Times /
Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X
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Martin and Malcolm and America
Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England,
and the Caribbean
The Black Muslims in America
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X /
Malcolm X Speaks /
By Any Means Necessary
February 1965: The Final Speeches
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The
Malcolm X Tour 2003
Sponsored By the Soul School
Institute
Buses depart for New York, Monday May 19 @
6 am
MALCOLM X BIRTHDAY
OBSERVANCE READY
On Monday, May 19th, the Malcolm X
Commemoration Committee and the Sons and Daughters of Afrika
will co-host the annual pilgrimage and caravan to the gravesite
of Malcolm X in observation of the 78th anniversary of his
birth.
The pilgrimage and gravesite caravan were
conceived and initiated by the powerful, pioneering Black
nationalist entrepreneur and leader, Ella Little-Collins,
Malcolm's underappreciated big sister.
Every year since his tragic assassination,
the gravesite pilgrimage has been observed. Since 1966, Baba
James Small, himself a surviving member of Malcolm's Muslim
Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU),
has coordinated the pilgrimage, as he still does to this day.
In 1992, the Malcolm X Commemoration
Committee joined the pilgrimage as co-hosts and expanded its
outreach all along the northeast corridor. As a consequence,
people have been making the pilgrimage from as far south as
Baltimore and Washington, DC, and from as far north as Boston.
One of the moving aspects that has
developed with the growth of the pilgrimage has been the
increasing participation of young people.
Last year's pilgrimage had some especially
moving highlights because the revered elder-scholar Dr. Yosef
Ben Jochannon, affectionately known as 'Dr. Ben,' made the
pilgrimage for the first time. The personal account that he gave
of Malcolm's death and burial cemented the enormity of
Malcolm's legacy and of the importance of the
ceremony for all of the participants.
"This has really grown into something
special. We are proud to do our share to see to it that it is
upheld and properly appreciated," emphasized Herman
Ferguson, chairman of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.
Ferguson was a founding member of the OAAU
and served as chairman of the education committee. When he tried
to continue to apply Malcolm's teachings with the Jamaica Rifle
& Pistol Association, the Black Brotherhood Improvement
Association and with being one of the founders of the
Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, he also
became a COINTELPRO target and was wrongly convicted for
conspiracy to assassinate civil rights leaders Roy Wilkins and
Whitney Young. He went underground and opted for exile instead.
When he returned to the united states from exile in 1989, he was
forced to serve his prison term. Upon his release, he and other
surviving members of the OAAU, like Jean Reynolds, Yuri
Kochiyama, Earl Grant and the late Gladstone Alexander, along
with other militant Malcolm X enthusiasts, initiated the Malcolm
X Commemoration Committee.
Participants will assemble at the Harlem
State Office Building, 163 West 125th Street at Adam Clayton
Powell Blvd., Harlem at 9:00 A.M. Busses depart at 10:00 A.M.
Donation for the buses is $5.00 and $3.00 for children. Families
should make reservations in advance.
The caravan usually returns to Harlem by
2:00 P.M. Upon their return, participants are encouraged to
attend the Malcolm X Museum's youth speak out at the Schomburg
Center on Malcolm X Blvd and 136th Street. The Speak-out begins
at 6:00 P.M.
For more information about the pilgrimage,
please call the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee at
718-949-5153. Herman Ferguson -- iyaluua@aol.com * * *
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John
Coltrane, "Alabama" /
Kalamu ya Salaam, "Alabama"
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A Love Supreme
A Blues for the Birmingham Four
/ Eulogy for the Young Victims
/ Six Dead After Church
Bombing
Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
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Malcolm X
artifacts unearthed—Police docs and more found among
belongs of 'Shorty' Jarvis—1 February 2012—Documents
outlining the crime that landed Malcolm X in prison in
the 1940s are among some 1,000 recently unearthed items
purchased jointly by the civil rights leader's
foundation and an independent collector of
African-American artifacts. The documents and other
artifacts belonged to late musician Malcolm "Shorty"
Jarvis, who served in prison with Malcolm X and was one
of his closest friends. Jarvis' 1976 pardon paper also
is part of the collection, which was recently discovered
by accident. The items had been in a Connecticut storage
unit that had gone into default, and were initially
auctioned off to a buyer who had no idea what he was
bidding on. The Omaha, Nebraska-based Malcolm X Memorial
Foundation, which oversees the Malcolm X Center located
at his birthplace, will house and display the
just-arrived archives. It split the cost with Black
History 101 Mobile Museum, based in Detroit—the
birthplace of the Nation of Islam.—Mobile Museum founder
and curator Khalid el-Hakim declined to identify the
original buyer or the price the two organizations paid
for the trove. Still, even after splitting the cost, he
said it's the largest acquisition to date for his mobile
museum, which includes Jim Crow-era artifacts, a Ku Klux
Klan hood and signed documents by Malcolm X and Rosa
Parks. . . . The collection also reveals an enduring
connection between the two Malcolms after their
incarceration, Malcolm X's conversion to Islam and his
rise to prominence. There's a 72-page scrapbook of
Malcolm X's life that was maintained by Jarvis until
after his friend's 1965 assassination. One of the civil
rights era's most controversial and compelling figures,
Malcolm X rose to fame as the chief spokesman of the
Nation of Islam, a movement started in Detroit more than
80 years ago. He proclaimed the black Muslim
organization's message at the time: racial separatism as
a road to self-actualization and urged blacks to claim
civil rights "by any means necessary" and referred to
whites as "devils."—TheGrio
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Ghosts in Our Blood
With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean
By Jan R.
Carew
Carew, an
activist, scholar, and journalist, met Malcolm X
during his last trip abroad only a few weeks before
he was killed in 1965. It made such an impression on
Carew that he felt compelled to search out Malcolm's
family and friends in order to flesh out the family
history. He interviewed Wilfred (Malcolm's older
brother) and a Grenadian friend of Malcolm's mother
named Tanta Bess. Comparing his family's experiences
with that of Malcolm X, he gives the most complete
picture yet of Malcolm's mother. Carew also offers a
tantalizing glimpse of Malcolm X's transforming
himself into El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, a man less
blinded by his own racial prejudices yet as
committed to the betterment of his race as ever.
Just before his death, Malcolm X became convinced
that a U.S. agency was involved with those trying to
kill him, and Carew here reveals the evidence
Malcolm X gave him to support these beliefs. The
mystery of Malcolm's death remains unresolved, and
we are once again filled with regret that he was cut
down before he could fulfill the promise of his
later days. While this book will not replace
The
Autobiography of Malcolm X (LJ 1/1/66), it is an
important supplement. All libraries that own the
autobiography should also purchase this one.—Library
Journal |
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Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
By
Manning Marable
Years
in the making-the definitive biography of
the legendary black activist.
Of the great figure in twentieth-century
American history perhaps none is more
complex and controversial than Malcolm X.
Constantly rewriting his own story, he
became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and
an icon, all before being felled by
assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine.
Through his tireless work and countless
speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands
of black Americans to create better lives
and stronger communities while establishing
the template for the self-actualized,
independent African American man. In death
he became a broad symbol of both resistance
and reconciliation for millions around the
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Manning Marable's
new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement.
Filled with new information and shocking revelations
that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a
sweeping story of race and class in America, from the
rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the
struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties
and sixties.
Reaching into
Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his
parents' activism through his own engagement with the
Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the
world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the
never-before-told true story of his assassination.
Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of
the most singular forces for social change, capturing
with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in
the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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