Within the past five years, the militant American Negro has become an increasingly active combatant in the struggle for civil rights.
A Candid Conversation With The Militant Major-Domo of The Black Muslims And after that night Malcolm was never, ever reluctant to talk. He’d been thrown under a moving streetcar. It was the memory of a little seven-year-old boy of his mother beginning to have great strain trying to hold together her brood of seven children whose father, her husband, had recently been murdered. “And I remember she was always bent over the stove, trying to stretch what little we had.” It was 11:30 at night and that man walked that floor until daybreak and spilling out of him came the first chapter of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. They were always faded and gray.” He walked a little more.
“I can remember the kind of dresses she used to wear.
And when he spoke his voice was up a notch. He looked at me and I knew that I had touched some button within him. Elijah Muhammed, and I just asked him to tell me something about his mother.Īt the time he was up walking-almost stalking, the way he would walk-and he stopped as if someone had jerked a string to him. Malcolm kept going on about the Nation of Islam and his leader, Mr. I was ready to go to the publisher and suggest they try another writer. I was uptight because I hadn’t been able to get through to him. This was after the Playboy, interview, when we were working on his book.
For the first several sessions he just would not talk about himself. Malcolm X had a fearsome image, tough guy, articulate but hard. In addition, it was also published within Alex Haley: The Playboy Interviews by Ballantine Books in July 1993.) Alex Haley Interviews Malcolm XAlex Haley Interviews Malcolm X (May 1963) (Alex Haley Interviews Malcolm X was originally published in the May 1963 issue of Playboy Magazine.
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