By Clayborne Carson
The FBI has made attainable a reassembling of the heritage ofMalcolm X that is going past any past learn. From theopening of his dossier in March of 1953 to his assassination in 1965,the tale of Malcolm X's political lifestyles is a gripping one.Shortly after he used to be published from a Boston felony in 1953, the FBIwatched each circulate Malcolm X made. Their records on him totaledmore than 3,600 pages, overlaying each aspect of his lifestyles. Viewing thefile as a resource of data concerning the ideological developmentand political value of Malcolm X, historian Clayborne Carsonexamines Malcolm's courting to different African-Americanleaders and associations so one can outline extra sincerely Malcolm'splace in glossy history.With its sobering scrutiny of the FBI and the nationwide policingstrategies of the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, Malcolm X: The FBI dossier is one ofa type: by no means earlier than has there been lots fabric at the assassinationof Malcolm X in a single conclusive quantity.
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One can safely say the Federal Bureau of Investigation has never been a friend to African-Americans. As far back as Marcus Garvey and A. Phillip Randolph the Bureau has more than kept its watchful eye on black leaders trying to uplift their people. I was fascinated reading this book. At the same time, though, I found it frightening. We all live in a wicked country where the government can and will do anything to keep people in check. I might add that I see the FBI, CIA and the police departments around this country as one and the same.
His public statements as a minister and political leader reached mainly a black urban audience while millions of every race read his posthumously published autobiography and speeches. He gained prominence as a caustic critic of civil rights leaders, but by the end of his life his evolving ideas had converged with the militant racial consciousness stimulated by the civil rights protest movement. During his public career, he was affiliated with one of the smaller African-American religious groups and never participated in the major national meetings of black leaders; yet he is remembered as one of the most influential political leaders of modern times.
Evers? Hampton? The list goes on and on. J. Edgar Hoover was a known racist and he did all he could and more to stop any movement by or on behalf of blacks, all under the guise of protecting democrary. This book chronicles the growth in the evolution of Malcolm from his early “white man is the devil” days to his later, more developed world outlook right before he was killed. One can see that the Bureau and agencies like it cannot work successfully without informants. , and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.