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"Marcus Garvey Did It": Malcolm X on Global "Black" Solidarity

"Marcus Garvey Did It": Malcolm X on Global "Black" Solidarity

Excerpts from an audio recording and CBS News outtakes of a speech by Malcolm X at a rally of his Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), a secular global black nationalist group, Audubon Ballroom, Washington Heights, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1965. GARVEYITE SON Malcolm X was a son of Early and Louisa Norton Langdon Little, who […]

Martin Luther King or Malcolm X? Rationality & Anger

Martin Luther King or Malcolm X? Rationality & Anger

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are often seen as having opposing views about how to achieve equality and black rights. In his autobiography, Stride Towards Freedom, King emphasizes calmness and always non-violence. Whereas Malcolm X, in his autobiography, emphasized freedom by any means necessary, through the Nation of Islam and possibly Black Nationalism. The […]