"Malcolm X: The Fbi File" by Clayborne Carson

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" Malcolm X was the leader and icon of the Black Nationalist movement as spokesperson for the Nation of Islam. He was a minister for the National of Islam and preached a message of black nationhood that appealed to a far broader audience. He saw separatism as self-determination and criticized reliance on whites to achieve black progress. Recently, the FBI file on Malcolm X has been released. In the introductory material to a published edition of these files, Clayborne Carson suggests that the reason Malcolm X was the target of an FBI investigation was that he was successful at being a spokesperson for blacks and that he achieved a national and even international position as a result. Carson says the publication of these files should be part of an effort "to study him within the context of American racial politics during the 1950s and 1960s" (4)."

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