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The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination,
His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist
Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography
The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on
the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and
Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters
from His Autobiography
On this the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm
X, we spend the hour with historian Manning Marable who has
spent a decade working on a new biography of Malcolm X. He
is one of the few historians to see the three missing chapters
from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" that he says
paint a very different picture than the book with Alex Haley
and Spike Lee's film. Marable has also had unprecedented access
to Malcolm's family and documents that shed new light on the
involvement of the New York Police, the FBI and possibly the
CIA in Malcolm X's assassination. Manning today called on
the federal government to release all remaining classified
documents on Malcolm X.
40 years ago today on February 21, 1965 Malcolm X was shot
dead as he spoke at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. He had
just taken the stage when shots rang out riddling his body
with bullets. Malcolm X was 39 years old.
At his funeral, the actor and civil rights activist Ossie
Davis hailed Malcolm as "our Black shining prince."
Today commemorations are scheduled across the country.
In New York, the Center for Contemporary Black History and
the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at
Columbia University are sponsoring "Malcolm X: Life After
Death -- the Legacy Endures" an educational forum and
radio broadcast. The program will be chaired by historian
Manning Marable, founding director of the Institute for Research
in African-American Studies.
The historic Abyssinian Baptist Church is also hosting a
national commemoration of Malcolm X with Percy Sutton, Sonia
Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti, Dr. James Turner, Gil Noble, Rev.
Herbert Daughtry and M-1 of Dead Prez.
Later this year, the Audubon Ballroom is scheduled to reopen
as the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education
Center on May 19 on what would have been Malcolm's 80th birthday.
Meanwhile Columbia University professor Manning Marable is
working on a major new biography on Malcolm X. Marable has
already spent 10 years researching the book which is tentatively
titled "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention."
Today Professor Marable joins us in our Firehouse Studios
to discuss the legacy of Malcolm X as well as some of his
new findings.
Marable has said "Malcolm X was potentially a new type
of world leader, personally drawn up from the 'wretched of
the earth into a political stratosphere of international power.
And telling that remarkable, true story is the purpose of
my biography."
Marable's research has raised new questions about The Autobiography
of Malcolm X which was written with Alex Haley. Marable has
also examined un-redacted FBI files which provides new insight
into the role of FBI and the New York Police Department in
the assassination of Malcolm X
We will be joined by Professor Marable in a moment, but first
we begin with the words of Malcolm X recorded a month before
he was killed. In January 1965 he gave a speech entitled "Prospects
for Freedom."
- Malcolm X, speaking in January 1965 giving a speech entitled
"Prospects for Freedom." Courtesy of the Pacifica
Radio Archives.
- Manning Marable, one of America's most influential and
widely read scholars. He is Professor of History and African-American
Studies at Columbia University, and founding Director of
the Institute for Research in African-American Studies.
He has been working on a new biography of Malcolm X for
more then ten years. It will be published by Viking in 2008.
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
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