The night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union : a transatlantic story of antiracist protest

308 Pages·2014·3.41 MB·English

by  Stephen Tuck & Henry Louis Gates

The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford
Union
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The Night Malcolm X Spoke
at the Oxford Union
A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest
Stephen Tuck
with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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quoted speeches by Malcolm X are from Malcolm X: Collected
Speeches, Debates and Interviews (1960–1965), edited by
Sandeep Atwal, and are available online at
http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.co.uk/p/malcolmx-e-book.html.
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For my mother, Norah, and in memory of my father, George
(1930–2013)
Yes. One thing . . . travel always broadens
one’s scope. Travel does.
—Malcolm X, interview with Les Crane,
December 27, 1964
Brother Malcolm was our manhood, our
living, Black manhood! . . . our own Black
shining Prince, who didn’t hesitate to die,
because he loved us so.
—Magazine of the Black Eagles, a British
Black Power group, 1965 (quoting eulogy to
Malcolm X by Ossie Davis)
CONTENTS
Photo section
Foreword, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Acknowledgments
Prologue:
A Black Revolutionary Meets Historic Oxford
1. A Life of Travel and Discovery: Malcolm X, 1925–1964
2. Oxford, Britain, and Race, 1870–1964
3. Antiracism Protests in Oxford, 1956–1964
4. The Debate, December 3, 1964
5. After the Debate, 1964–1968
Epilogue
Notes
Index