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577. MALCOLM X (1925 - 1965) American civil rights and Muslim leader, a brilliant orator who preached black separatism and nationalism, assassinated while giving a speech in Harlem. Fine content T.Ms.S. "Malcolm X", 1p. 4to., [n.p., n.d.], a page from Alex Haley's interview with Malcolm X for Playboy Magazine. Before publication, Malcolm X insisted upon editing the typescript and signing each page when approved. In part: "...The Civil War's been over a hundred years, and there is not freedom for black men yet. That's practical?... The churches---the most segregated morning in America is Sunday morning. The labor unions? The NAACP just got thrown out of the back door for daring to question the lily-white policy. Mr. [Elijah] Muhammad teaches us to be for what's practical...and that's separatism. It's also more natural than integration. Just like it's no more unnatural for us to be given some land of our own than plenty of other things the white man has done--for practical reasons...You mean this great, fine, good white man in North America is so rotten that he gives king's ransoms to everybody else in the world and will still quibble about giving some land to the twenty million black men who have been so faithful?..." Very good. $1,500-2,000
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