Social Justice
Student 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.
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.