Malcolm X Speaks

With a newintroduction by National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi, the classiccollection of speeches given between 1963 and 1965 by Black liberation championMalcolm X Malcolm X Speaks contains the major late speeches of one of the most important leaders forBlack liberation and empowerment, who was also one of the great orators of ourtime. For many years, Malcolm X resisted the nonviolent and integrationistapproaches of the mainstream civil rights movement, emphasizing instead theseparation of the white and Black races. Beginning with his break from theBlack Muslims, however, Malcolm X moved away from philosophies of the Nation ofIslam and began to take a broader view of the potential for productivealliances with other groups in the battle for liberation. Now reissued with anew introduction by National Book Award winner and bestselling author Ibram X.Kendi, Malcolm X Speaks is an essential volume in the literature ofBlack power.

These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Breaking from the Black Muslims, he moved away from the black militarism prevalent in his earlier years only to be shot down by an assassin's bullet.