Preston Wilcox (1923-2006)
Preston was a good brother. He earned every bit of his reward by becoming a permanent icon of the lovers and patriots of Harlem. I knew Preston over more than a 40 years run of activism, beginning with our both being on the board of the Association of Afro-American Educators in the 1960's. We stayed in touch over the years. We both believed that Black people would be well served by studying the lessons of the life and legacy of Malcolm X. We continued to share information. Preston created the Malcolm X Lovers Network and shared all of the information he could get his hands on, mainly consisting of a detailed archive of paper published about Malcolm X in New York, especially Harlem. He preserved newspaper clippings, flyers, brochures, event programs, and correspondence he had with others. In this material you will find much information from us: Peoples College, the Brother Malcolm dot net website, and the work of the Toledo Spiders. We are posting this website in three sections. Presently we have the contents of 45 mailings he did to me as part of his Malcolm X Lovers Network activities, about 250 pages of text and graphics. We also have a webliography of additional information and a one hour interview I did with Preston as well as a transcript of this interview (its a rough draft but real). The second section will be the contents of a giant notebook he compiled of his material, over 400 pages. The third section will be an additional collection of over 2000 pages of his archive. We have little information on this giant of Harlem. This is a plea to people who loved this brother to put up your own website or get with us and we'll put your info up here with attribution. Doesn't this brother deserve a permanent place in cyberspace? Lets do this!