Books : Malcolm X: The FBI File
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by: Clayborne Carson
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 921
EAN: 9780345400093
ISBN: 0345400097
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 434
Publication Date: February 18, 1995
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: February 18, 1995
Sales Rank: 404047
Studio: Ballantine Books
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'Compelling...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of Clayborne Carson, a leading scholar of the American Civil Rights movement, this is a fascinating biographical and historical document, one that sheds light on both Malcolm X and the government compelled to monitor him.
'These pages allow us to understand better a remarkable orator who, among all his other gifts, was able to listen and grow.'
-- The New York Times
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Library of Sonya Armfield
This book was interesting because it offers a different perspective of Malcolm X. Its good to read this book with the autobiography of Malcolm X.
Sonya Armfield
Rating:  - A useful book, the product of much research exposing the FBI
Carson is a well-known Black scholar whose most important work has been organizing and opublishing from the Martin Luther King Papers. This book was an effort on his part to expose how the FBI followed Malcolm X from the time he wrote to a radical youth group for information, long before Malcolm X joined the Muslims until his death, a death Malcolm more and more expected would come from the FBI/CIA. Along the way the FBI has preserved speeches and letters and views of Malcolm as they evolved throughout ... Read More
Rating: - The book was informative....
The book was informative however the foward by Spike Lee was out of place. It breaks my heart that so many people profit from the life and death of Malcolm X other than his family. Although this is a good book do your self and Malcolm justice by getting this book from your public library!
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