Malcolm X: the FBI File - Softcover

Carson, Clayborne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345400097 ISBN 13: 9780345400093

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 1995

Synopsis

Combines editorial commentary with material condensed from the FBI's file of the personal correspondence, newspaper articles, sermons, and media interviews of Malcolm X

About this title

From the Inside Flap

ling...A stunning composite of the black leader drawn from the declassified FBI documents spanning over a decade of undercover surveillance."

-- Atlantic News Service

The FBI opened its file on Malcolm X shortly after his release from a Boston prison in March 1953. Twelve years later -- on February 21, 1965 -- he was assassinated in a hail of bullets. Yet his fascinating story survived his violent death -- and a vital part of that story is found here in Malcolm X: The FBI File.

This extraordinary work distills the voluminous file kept on the most controversial and charismatic civil rights leader, which ran to more than thirty-six hundred pages. Accompanied by the incisive commentaries of Clayborne Carson, a leading scholar of the American Civil Rights movement, this is a fascinating biographical and historical document, one that sheds light on both Malcolm X and the government compelled to monitor him.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345400097
• ISBN 13: 9780345400093
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 434