Malcolm X anniversary (1960s interview)

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"By any means necessary" explained: Malcolm X's last speech before he was assassinated

In a 1960s interview, Malcolm X talks passionately about the deep roots of segregation and questions Martin Luther King's methods.

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Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. In the tape, Malcolm X talked passionately about the deep roots of segregation in America, the political and psychological state of the Black community, the need to build the Black leadership, and his strong condemnation [of some] of Martin Luther King's methods. Source

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