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Student reportedly uncovers lost Malcolm X speech

The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America’s top diplomats.

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13 years ago

February 9, 2012

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Malcolm X (Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519439/)

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The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and an Ivy Leaguer to become one of America’s top diplomats.

Malcolm X lost speech

The audiotape of Malcolm X’s 1961 address in Providence might never have surfaced at all if 22-year-old Brown University student Malcolm Burnley hadn’t stumbled across a reference to it in an old student newspaper. He found the recording of the little-remembered visit gathering dust in the university archives.

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