The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Chapter 14: Black Muslims

New People:
Louis Lomax: black journalist who profiles the Nation of Islam in a television documentary

Professor C. Eric Lincoln: black scholar who writes a book about the Nation of Islam

James Hicks: editor of the Amsterdam News, a Harlem newspaper

Summary
The Nation of Islam movement is gaining national, as well as international, prominence. In 1959, two newspapers serving black communities, Harlem’s Amsterdam News and Los Angeles’ Herald Dispatch, begin carrying regular columns written by Malcolm and Elijah...


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