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MALCOLM X.

11 Typed Manuscripts with Annotations, 133 pages, quarto, various places including Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, MD, Phoenix, AZ, and Connecticut, n.d., being typed drafts of his radio addresses, some staining and thumbing throughout, overall fine.

In these drafts, Malcolm X articulately propounds Elijah Muhammed's views of Black Nationalism, particularly regarding separatism. From a speech delivered from the Los Angeles Mosque: " As long as we are in our former slavemaster's house, we are dependent upon him ... as long as we are in our slavemaster's government, we are dependent upon him. If we want freedom we must first have our own house so we can set up our own government. When we have our own house, our own land, then we can be self-supporting and self-governing ... Only when we are self-supporting can we be self-governing ... and as long as we are not self-governing, we are still not free."

Lot no. 2167
Sale no. 7308z

Estimate 10000 / 15000

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