INVESTIGATOR KARL EVANZZ + EDITOR A PETER BAILEY COUNTERING MANNING MARABLE ON MALCOLM X (MF GALAXY 078)
MARABLE CLAIMED ALEX HALEY WAS AN FBI INFORMANT WORKING AGAINST MALCOLM X, THE MISSING CHAPTERS OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY Malcolm X is an icon of Pan-Africanism. Born May 19, 1925 to a Pan-Africanist family active in Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, Malcolm survived the racist murder of his father and his own descent into crime and prison. He emerged as a minister for the Nation of Islam, one of several organisations born from the US government’s destruction of Garvey’s UNIA. While committed to the NOI’s religious doctrine, Malcolm X developed a secular, revolutionary, political ideology that combined Garveyism with the Original World liberation struggles raging against imperialism throughout the 1950s and 60s. So respected was he that after he broke from the NOI in 1964, Malcolm X formed the united front Organisation of Afro-American Unity and won observer status on behalf of African Americans at the newly-formed Organisation of African Unit...