2168
MALCOLM X.

LARGE COLLECTION OF TYPED SPEECHES.
21 Typed Manuscripts with Annotations, 215 pages, quarto, various places including New Haven, Los Angeles, Chicago, and others, n.d., being drafts of speeches given at universities and articles prepared for publication or distribution, some creasing and thumbing throughout. Together with 66 Typed Manuscripts, some duplicates present.

This lot represents speeches and writings produced for an audience outside the Nation of Islam temples. In several speeches delivered before university audiences, including Clark College, Howard University, and Yale, Malcolm explains the history and positions of the Nation of Islam. He uses stark imagery to hammer home his separatist argument. From the speech to Yale: " Uncle Sam is sick, because he has a black 'lump' growing in his white body that doesn't belong there, and this black 'growth' is getting larger every day, and increasing Uncle Sam's internal pains. God Himself has ordained that this surgery must be performed, for if the 20 million rapidly increasing so-called Negroes are not separated from the white parts of the body, it will soon cause the death and destruction of Uncle Sam."

Lot no. 2168
Sale no. 7308z

Estimate 10000 / 15000

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