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Malcolm X HIS WORDS WRITTEN AND SPOKEN

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1941
Date		Title		Venue		Ref
1941	Letter to Mary Jane Smith, 4 pages, [1941?] Tells Smith about his recent activities and plans, remembers their friendship.		Roxbury, Mass.		29
1/17/41	Malcolm Little to Eloise Schack, 4 pages Tells Schack about his future travel plans and mentions that he worked as a "prop boy" for Count Basie last year.		Roxbury, Mass.		29
11/18/41	Malcolm Little to Zelma Holman, 4 pages Tells Holman about his recent activities and plans, including job at a dance hall.		Roxbury, Mass.		29

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1946
Date		Title		Venue	Ref
1/14/46	Letter to Ella Little Collins (half-sister), 4 pages, [Charleston State Prison], Gives Collins Christmas gift requests, tells her about activities in prison.		Charleston, Mass.			29

1947
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

7/28/47	Letter requesting transfer from Concord Prison to Norfolk		27
11/28/47	Letter of application to Nation of Islam		28

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1948
Date		Title		Venue		Ref
3/28/48	Letter to Ella Little Collins, 4 pages Introspective letter about his experiences in prison, request for birthday gift, discusses Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers.		Condord Prison, MA		29

1949
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1/31/49

Letter to sister Ella from prison

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1950
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2/15/50	Letter from Prison	Norfolk, MA	23	Text
12/13/50	Letter to Commissioner of Corrections		27

1955
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1/15/55	Letter to sister Ella			Text
9/4/55	Malcolm X to Elijah Muhammad, 1 page, Updates Muhammad about activities in local temples, sends money from the temples	East Elmhurst, NY	29

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1957
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

4/6/57	The Muhammads: What are they?	NYC	13
4/27/57	God's Angry Men (newspaper column)	NYC	13
5/4/57	God's Angry Men	NYC	13
5/18/57	God's Angry Men	NYC	13
5/25/57	God's Angry Men	NYC	13
6/1/57	God's Angry Men	NYC	13
6/8/57	God's Angry Men	NYC	13

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1959
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8/59	Speaks at Temple with Wallace D. Muhammad	NYC

1960
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

1960	Malcolm X Proclaims Muhammad as Man of the hour	New Haven, CT	11
1960	Speaks on weekly radio broadcast Mr. Muhammad Speaks	Atlantic City, NJ
1960	Speaks on weekly radio broadcast Mr. Muhammad Speaks	Atlanta, GA
Apr-60	Speech at Harlem Unity Rally	NYC	9
Sep-60	Minister Malcolm X Enunciates The Muslim Program	Chicago, IL	19
Nov-60	WBAI radio discussion with Bayard Rustin	NYC		Text

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1961
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

1961	University speech given during 1961-62	Atlanta, GA	9
3/24/61	The Harvard Law School Forum	Cambridge, MA	5
4/23/61	Discussion: Malcolm X, C. Eric Lincoln, James Baldwin, George Schuyler	NYC	T
6/16/61	Speech at Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's New York Church of God	NYC	25
10/15/61	Where is the American Negro Headed	NYC	8

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1962
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

1962	Malcolm X at Yale University	New Haven, CT	9
3/7/62	James Farmer and Malcolm X: A Debate	Ithaca, NY	20
5/1/62	The Crises of Racism: Malcolm X, James Farmer, William Worthy	NYC	T
5/4/62	WBAI interview by Dick Elman	NYC	15,T
9/15/62	Muslim Minister Rips 'Token Integration'	Chicago, IL	19
Dec 62	Black Man's History	NYC	7

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1963
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

1963	Louis Lomax interviews Malcolm X	NYC	9
1/23/63	Speech: Twenty million Black people in a political, economic, and mental prison	East Lansing, MI	3, T
May-63	Playboy Interview	Chicago		Text
Jun-63	The Black Revolution	NYC	7, T
Jun-63	Malcolm X talks with Kenneth Clark	NYC	8
7/31/63	Letter to Martin Luther King, Jr.	NYC	22	Text
7/31/63	Letter to Whitney Young	NYC	15	Text
8/10/63	Harlem Unity Rally	NYC	T

Sep-63	The Old Negro and the New Negro	Philadelphia, Pa.	7
10/11/63	Speech: America's gravest crisis since the Civil War	Berkeley, CA	3
10/11/63	Interview with Herman Blake at the University of California	Berkeley, CA	T
11/10/63	Speech: Message to the Grass Roots	Detroit, MI	1, 8,T
11/30/63	Letter to Jackie Robinson	NYC	11
12/4/63	God's Judgment of White America (The Chickens are coming home to roost)	NYC	7,8	Text

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1964
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

Mar 64	Speaks again	NYC	T
May 64	Liberator interview with Carlos Russell	NYC
3/7/64	James Farmer and Malcolm X: A debate on the solution to America's Race Problem	Ithaca, NY	11,20
3/11/64	Letter to Elijah Muhammad	NYC	24	Text
3/12/64	Speech: A Declaration of Independence	NYC	1
3/18/64	The Harvard Leverett House Forum of 1964	Cambridge, MA	5
3/19/64	Interviewed by A. B. Spellman	NYC	2
3/20/64	Radio interview with Joe Rainey	Philadelphia	26
4/3/64	The Ballot or the Bullet	Cleveland, OH	1, T
4/8/64	The Black Revolution, Talk at Militant Labor Forum	NYC	1, T	Text
4/8/64	Answers to Questions at Militant Labor Forum	NYC	2
4/8/64	Al Hajj Malik Shabazz's Declaration of Orthodox Islam	NYC		Text
4/12/64	The Ballot or the Bullet	Detroit, MI	T
4/20/64	Letter from Saudi Arabia	Jedda, Saudi Arabia	1
May 64	Liberator interview with Carlos Russell	NYC	17
5/10/64	Letter from Nigeria	Lagos, Nigeria	1
5/11/64	Letter from Ghana	Accra, Ghana	1
5/13/64	I'm not an American, I'm a victim of Americanism	Accra, Ghana	6
5/29/64	Militant Labor Forum, with Clifton DeBerry, Quentin Hand, and W. Reid. The Harlem Hate Gang Scare Forum	NYC	1, T
5/29/64	A visit from the FBI	NYC	8
6/20/64	Discussion on The Long John Nebel Show, WOR Radio	NYC	T
6/23/64	Open Letter to Elijah Muhammad	NYC	25
6/28/64	The Founding rally of the OAU	NYC	2
6/30/64	Telegram to Martin Luther King, Jr.	NYC	22	Text
Jul 64	We are all blood brothers	NYC
7/4/64	Harlem and the political machines	NYC	2
7/5/64	The second rally of the OAU	NYC	2

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7/17/64	Appeal to African Heads of State	Addis Ababa	1, 8	Text
8/21/64	The Second African Summit Conference	Cairo, Egypt	8
8/25/64	Racism: The cancer that is destroying America The Negro's fight	Cairo, Egypt	8
1964	Letter to sister Ella	Mecca		Text
8/29/64	A letter from Cairo	Cairo, Egypt	2	Text
9/12/64	I'm talking to you, white man	NYC		21

11/23/64	Black Struggle in the United States	Paris, France	2,10,T
11/28/64	Discussion on Barry Gray Radio Show	NYC	2,T
11/29/64	The homecoming rally of the OAU	NYC	2
Dec 64	Interview with Robert Penn Warren	NYC	26
Dec 64	Interview with Claude Lewis	NYC	26
12/2/64	Whatever is necessary to protect ourselves	NYC	3
12/3/64	Any means necessary to bring about freedom	Oxford, England	6,T
12/12/64	Haryou-Act Rally	NYC	8,T
12/13/64	Speech at the Audubon with Dick Gregory and Babu	NYC	1, T
12/16/64	The Harvard Law School Forum of 1964	Cambridge, MA.	5, T
12/20/64	Speaks for Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party	NYC	1,T
12/20/64	Speech at the Audubon Ballroom with Fannie Lou Hamer	NYC	1, T
12/27/64	Our people identify with Africa	NYC	3
12/31/64	Speech to Mississippi Youth	NYC	1,T

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1965
Date	Title	Venue	Ref

Jan 65	Interview in London	London, England
1/1/65	See for yourself, listen for yourself, think for yourself	NYC	6
1/7/65	Militant Labor Forum - Prospects for Freedom in 1965	NYC	1, T
1/18/65	The Young Socialist Interview	NYC	2
1/18/65	The American system of exploitation and oppression	NYC	6
1/19/65	Television interview with Pierre Berton	Toronto	26
1/24/65	Malcolm X on Afro-American History	NYC	12,T
1/25/65	Some reflections on Negro History Week and the role of Black people in history	NYC	8
2/1/65	My death has been ordered	NYC	4
2/3/65	Elijah is willing to sit and wait - I'm not	Tuskegee, AL	4
2/4/65	Why I came to Selma	Selma, AL	4
2/4/65	The house Negro and the field Negro	Selma, AL	4
2/6/65	Time is on the side of the African against exploitation and oppression	London, England	4
2/9/65	On being barred from France	London, England	2
2/9/65	The importance of unity	London, England	4
2/9/65	Telephone conversation with Carlos Moore	London, England	8
2/10/65	I live for change and action	London, England	4
2/11/65	Students as potential revolutionaries	London, England	4
2/11/65	The oppressed masses of the world cry out for action against the common oppressor	London, England	4,6
2/12/65	The worst human being is one who judges another by the color of his skin	Birmingham, England	4
2/12/65	The fight against racism from South Africa to Australia to the USA	London, England	4
2/13/65	We are fighting for respect and recognition as human beings for all Black Americans	NYC	4
2/14/65	After the Bombing	Detroit, MI	1
2/14/65	Educate our people in the science of politics	Detroit, MI	4
2/14/65	The Last Message	Detroit, MI	T
2/15/65	There's a worldwide revolution going on	NYC	3,4
2/16/65	Not just an American problem, but a world problem	Rochester, NY	3,4
2/18/65	Confrontation with an Expert	NYC	1
2/18/65	I think with my own mind.	NYC	4
2/18/65	Free to participate in the struggle	NYC	4
2/18/65	A global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor	NYC	4
2/18/65	We are demanding an investigation	NYC	4
2/18/65	There is a conspiracy to kill me.	NYC	4
2/18/65	The Black Muslim movement: an assessment	NYC	4
2/19/65	One big force under one banner	NYC	4
2/25/65	We have to learn how to think	NYC	4
3/28/65	Letter from Ghana	Accra, Ghana	11
1965	Autobiography of Malcolm X	NYC

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Post card to Reginald Little (brother), 1 page, Hopes to see Reginald Little soon	NYC	29
Letter to Ruth McGuire, Requests that McGuire write	Roxbury, MA	29
Letter to Ruth Bailey, 1 page, Writes that he will write a letter soon	Boston, MA	29
Letter to John Carter, 1 page, unknown location, 10 February, [?] Arranges to give Carter tickets		29
Malcolm X at Queens College	NYC	9

Lecture at Hunter College, speaking as representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad	NYC	T
Gold Radio Interview by Milton Henry	Cairo, Egypt	T
Discussion on Sit Ins with James Baldwin and Laverne McCummins	NYC	T

Malcolm X Speaks! Selection of 11 voice clips from Webcorp.com

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