[PEN-L:2126] Re: Re: Malcolm X

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, but in the circles I've was in,
_Malcolm X Speaks_ was always
discussed as reflecting exactly
the changes in Malcolm's life
near its end. The autobio also
includes the break with Elijah
Muhammed, which is also the
beginning of his accelerating
progressivity at the end

Charles Brown

>>> Bill Burgess <burgess@xxxxxxxxxxx> 01/12 7:49 PM >>>

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Charles Brown wrote:

> How about _The Autobiography of
> Malcolm X_ and _Malcolm X Speaks_.
> Malcolm X was an eye witness to
> his life. He tells of the meeting
> with the KKK himself...

These are the better-known books I was referring to. I never took
from them the views that some critics of Malcolm X ascribe to him. In any
case, however, they do not reflect what Breitman argues was a
significant evolution in Malcolm X's views in the year or so before he
was assassinated, and which Breitman tries to document. IMHO they
provide a strong antidote to sectarianism.

Bill Burgess

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