Malcolm X, Smethwick, and the influence of the African American freedom struggle on British race relations in the 1960s
Submitted by wojtek on Jun 2 2020 21:45
An essay by Joe Street detailing Macolm X's trip to Smethwick, Birmingham in the 1960s and its impact.
Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
This history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora throughout the twentieth century begins with the premise that the catalyst for political engagement has never been misery, poverty, or oppression. People are drawn to social movement because of hope: their dreams of a new world radically different from the one they inherited.
Black Revolutionaries in the US: Communist Interventions, vol. 2
Second volume of the Communist Interventions series, collecting debates between Black revolutionaries in the US.
“Ironies of the saint” Malcolm X, black women, and the price of protection - Farah Griffin
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 16 2013 17:20
Farah Griffin's black feminist critique of Malcolm X and the "promise of protection".
Malcolm X and anarchism - Wayne Price
An article by Wayne Price for Black History Month 2010 on the relevance of Malcolm X's life and philosophy to anarchism.
The transgression of a laborer: Malcom X in the wilderness of America
Submitted by libcom on Oct 28 2005 19:19
Italian Autonomist Ferruccio Gambino's analysis of the development of Malcolm X's thought, from prison and the factory through to the Nation of Islam, and its deviation from the traditional state-allocated path of ethnic leadership.
