Malcolm X became extremely dangerous the less extreme he became.
The authorities preferred him to be seen as a NOI maverick, and were concerned by his more encompassing approach to the development of Black Americans after his Hajj.
The NOI were jealous of his popularity once he left them, and his appeal to potential NOI followers...now you understand why some of us believe Farrakhan is a CIA stooge and NOI is part of the CIA....they wouldnt allow all those black folks to be Sunni/Orthodox Muslims....now fuckin way
The authorities preferred him to be seen as a NOI maverick, and were concerned by his more encompassing approach to the development of Black Americans after his Hajj.
The NOI were jealous of his popularity once he left them, and his appeal to potential NOI followers...now you understand why some of us believe Farrakhan is a CIA stooge and NOI is part of the CIA....they wouldnt allow all those black folks to be Sunni/Orthodox Muslims....now fuckin way
Lawsuit launched though daughter listed as co-editor of diary written during last year of late civil rights leader's life
Malcolm X, 1964
Malcolm X speaking 1964, the year he broke away from the Nation of Islam. Photograph: Robert Parent/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
The family of Malcolm X has launched a lawsuit to stop the publication of a diary of the late civil-rights leader's last year.
The Diary of Malcolm X, a reproduction of a private diary kept as he travelled to the Middle East and Africa immediately before his assassination, is due to be published this week, according to Third World Press, a Chicago-based company. The publisher lists one of the leader's six daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, as a co-editor.
But in papers filed to Manhattan federal court, according to the Associated Press, heirs to Malcolm X say Third World Press does not have the right to publish it.
Bennett Johnson, the vice-president of Third World Press, said it had a signed contract with one of Malcolm X's daughters. A video on the website of Third World Press shows Shabazz speaking about the book, alongside journalist Herb Boyd, who is also listed as co-editor.
"It's really beautiful that we get to see Malcolm in his own voice – without scholars, historians or observers saying what he was thinking or what he was doing or what he meant" Shabazz says.
The book is due to be published on 14 November, the film notes.
Boyd said the diary took in the activist's trips to the Middle East and Africa. According to the company's website, the diary "described the deep emotional connections [Malcolm X] developed during a period that was constantly colored by his prophetic sense of impending tragedy". Text on the website also says that the writings, which set out a "unique action plan for African Americans", were recently recovered from the memorabilia maintained by the family.
The journals are part of a trove of papers that were loaned to the New York Public Library by Malcolm X's daughters in 2003.
Why, man? Just why?
