2165
MALCOLM X.

MANUSCRIPTS--SPEECHES.
23 Autograph Manuscripts, 209 pages, quarto and legal folio, various places including New York and Los Angeles, n.d., being drafts of speeches given at freedom rallys and other public appearances, pages thumbed, some edges cut and worn, overall fine.

This lot features a fine collection of Malcolm X's handwritten speeches. Malcolm returns to familiar themes--Black nationalism, separatism, presing a united black front against a common enemy--but also presents other more controversial arguments, including the belief that the white liberal is a far more dangerous enemy to the black community than the white conservative, as the latter's motives are self-evident, while the white liberal seems to be coercing the civil rights movement for his own ends. In a speech that begins "America is facing her gravest crisis since the Civil War..." Malcolm invokes some of his most powerful rhetoric. In part: " It is sheer ignorance, insanity, for our people to celebrate the 4th of july as Independence Day, while white America still denies us the first class citizenship that goes with independence--and it is nothing but hypocrisy for the American white man to pretend that the Revolutionary War was truly a War of Independence as long as 20 million black people here in America are denied the privilleges of an independent people ... In essence, this means: the American white man fought the Revolutionary War to get this country for himself--he then fought the Civil War to keep this country intact for himself--and today he will now fight a Race War to keep from having to share this country on an equal basis with anyone but himself--especially on an equal basis with his 20 million former slaves."

Lot no. 2165
Sale no. 7308z

Estimate 40000 / 60000

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