“Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that you bleach it to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the…
Below is the basic unity program to Malcolm X’s organization, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). He was to present this on February 21, 1965, but was stopped by the bullets of his assassins.
Malcolm has laid out the groundwork towards organization. It’s…
Recommended Malcolm X book #7: “Malcolm X: February 1965 - The Final Speeches” published by Pathfinder and edited by Steve Clark (1992)
“During the three weeks prior to his assassination on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X spoke to audiences in Britain and France and across the United States.
In the speeches and interviews in this book, Malcolm X … brings a revolutionary internationalist outlook to young civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama … details for the first time some of the conflicts that led him to being driven out of the Nation of Islam … campaigns against anti-Black racism and anti-immigrant chauvinism … speaks out against U.S. military intervention in Africa, Vietnam, and elsewhere … champions women’s social and political equality … points a finger at cop involvement in attempts to his life … and much more.”
I have to say this-that this is a very, very important book to read towards understanding what Malcolm was about.
