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Series I: Administrative Files, 1990-2011
Series II: Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment, 1999-2007
Series IV: Malcolm X Course Files, 2001-2010
Series V: Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, 2003-2005
Series VII: Oral Histories, 2001-2009
Series X: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Series XI: Audiovisual Materials, 1986-2007, undated

Malcolm X Project Records, 1960-2008, bulk 2001-2008

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Series VIII: Malcolm X Documents, Speeches, Photographs and other Material

Series VIII includes research files compiled by the Malcolm X Project team that pull together Malcolm X's writings, speeches, and other political output. These materials are all copies of original or published materials.

Subseries VIII.1: Speeches, 1960-1965

Arranged chronologically.


Box 20 1960-1965

Box 20 Speech Logs


Box 38 Various Transcripts and Logs, (10 folders)

Subseries VIII.2: Malcolm X's Writings, 1952-1964


Box 21 Appeal to African Heads of State

Box 21 Letter, 1959 March 25

Box 21 Letters from Abroad

Box 21 An Open Letter to E. Muhammad

Box 21 Organization of Afro-American Unity

Box 21 A Letter from Cairo

Box 21 Racism: The Cancer that is Destroying America

Box 21 Outline for Petition to the United Nations

Box 21 Recognition as Human Beings for all Black Americans

Box 21 Letters, 1964

Box 21 Organization of African American Unity--Correspondence, 1964

Box 21 Prison Correspondence (Photocopies), 1946-1952

Subseries VIII.3: News Articles about Malcolm X, 1926-2005

Box 21 1926-1964


Box 22 1964-2005


Box 38 Various


Box 39 Various


Box 53 Various, 1964-1969, (3 Folders)

Subseries VIII.4: Journal Articles and Book Chapters about Malcolm X


Box 23 Articles, undated, (4 folders)

Box 23 Articles (no citation), (2 folders)


Box 55 Amiri Baraka, "Malcolm X as Ideology,", 2008

This is inscribed to Marable by Baraka, March 30, 2011.


Box 23 Faith Articles, Chapter 5

Box 23 The Resurrection of the Nation of Islam

Box 23 Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics

Box 23 General Annotation

Box 23 Consuming Malcolm X

Box 23 Journal Article--"The Political and Social Relevancy of MX"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Guilty as Charged"

Box 23 "The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History"

Box 23 "Missioning and Signifying"

Box 23 "BAM's Historical Background"

Box 23 "The Birth of an American Religion"

Box 23 "Black Fundamentalism"

Box 23 Journal Article--"The Semiotics of Salvation"

Box 23 Journal Article--"European Culture in Africa as Business"

Box 23 Journal Article--"House Negroes on the Loose"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Race, Islam and Politics"

Box 23 "'Cultural Racism' and Colonial Migrants"

Box 23 Excerpts from "Let Nobody Turn Us Around"

Box 23 "Africa"

Box 23 "Money (That's What I Want)"

Box 23 "Malcolm X: In Print, on Screen"

Box 23 "Islam in the African American Community"

Box 23 "It's a doggy-dogg world"

Box 23 Africa is for white people too

Box 23 "Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam"

Box 23 Journal Article--"East of the Moon"

Box 23 Book Annotation of An Afrocentric Study..

Box 23 Chapter--"Scaling the Mountain Peaks of Spirituality"

Box 23 Chapter Excerpts--"Between Cross and Crescent"

Box 23 Malcolm X and the Liberation Movement

Box 23 "Islamic Universalism, Black Particularism and the Dual ID of MX"

Box 23 Journal Article--"An Equation for Black People on Stage"

Box 23 "Malcolm X in the Military"

Box 23 Essay--"Land Swindle"

Box 23 "In tribute to Malcolm X", 1965

Box 23 Journal Article--"Radical Affirmatives"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Malcolm X: Mission and Meaning"

Box 23 "Black Nationalism"

Box 23 "The Man of Color and the White Woman"

Box 23 "The Ordeal of Malcolm X"

Box 23 "Malcolm X, Black Nationalism, and Socialism"

Box 23 "Malcolm X as a Civil Rights Leader"

Box 23 Prophets

Box 23 Essay--"The Source and Course of the Black Power in America:

Box 23 "Brother Malcolm"

Box 23 "Initial Reactions on the Assassination of Malcolm X"

Box 23 "Black Power in the International Context"

Box 23 "The Social Context of Black America"

Box 23 "Black Nationalism"

Box 23 "Topics of Revolutionary Rhetoric"

Box 23 Journal Article--"The Autobiography of Malcolm X: A Revolutionary Use of the Franklin Tradition"

Box 23 "The Five Faces of MX"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Malcolm and King"

Box 23 Excerpt--"King, Malcolm, and the Future of the Black Revolution"

Box 23 "Malcolm X"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Folk Music, Pholk Music and the Angry Children of MX"

Box 23 "What does Nonviolence Mean"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Let My People Go"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Takeover in Harlem"

Box 23 "Another Man Done Gone: The Death of MX"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Black Nationalism and Arab-Israeli conflict"

Box 23 "Malcolm X"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Witness and Testament"

Box 23 "Malcolm X, the Revolutionary"

Box 23 "Black Power and the Future of America"

Box 23 Journal Article--"The Didactic Achievement of Malcolm X's Autobiography"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Malcolm Little as a Charismatic Leader"

Box 23 Journal Article--"The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Beyond Didacticism"

Box 23 "Malcolm X", 1972

Box 23 "The Dechristianization of Black Radicalism"

Box 23 "Radicalism: 1915-1953"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Requiem for Brother X"

Box 23 "The Evolution of MX: From Poseur to Pan-Africanist"

Box 23 "The Philosophy of Brother Malcolm"

Box 23 Poem--"El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Race and Class: The Problem of Synthesis"

Box 23 Selma, 1965

Box 23 Encyclopedia Excerpt--"Malcolm X"

Box 23 "Malcolm X"

Box 23 "Malcolm X and the Struggle for Independent Black Political Action"

Box 23 "Conversions"

Box 23 "Drugs and Devils: The Conversion Cure of Malcolm X"

Box 23 "Muslims and Malcolm"

Box 23 "Malcolm X", 1976

Box 23 "Malcolm X and the Rise of Contemporary Nationalism"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography"

Box 23 "Beyond Malcolm"

Box 23 "Separatism: The Legacy of Malcolm X"

Box 23 "Black Response to WWII"

Box 23 "A Conversation with Malcolm and Martin"

Box 23 "Separatist Ideologies, 1"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Malcolm X"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Three Masters of Impression Management"

Box 23 "Black Nationalism and Garveyist Influences"

Box 23 "The Malcolm Legacy"

Box 23 "Malcolm X"

Box 23 "Let's Not Waste the Holy Spirit"

Box 23 "Malcolm X"

Box 23 Chapter and Annotation--"A Question of Identity"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Malcolm X -- Myth and Truthfulness"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Racism & Religion"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Home and Family"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Far out above Cayuga's Water"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Voices from the Veil: Black American Autobiography"

Box 23 "Black Autobiography -- Discernible Forms"

Box 23 "The Miracle of Language"

Box 23 Journal Article--"The Political Ideology of Malcolm X"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Collaboration in Contemporary American Autobiography"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Malcolm X and the Black Muslim Movement"

Box 23 Journal Article--"The Representative Voice"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Credit to the Parties in Brixton"

Box 23 "Malcolm and the Messenger"

Box 23 "Malcolm X: His Significance and Legacy"

Box 23 "Racial Messianism and Political Revitalism in the 1960s"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Race and Class"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Liberation Strategies in Black Theology: Mao, Martin, or Malcolm?"

Box 23 "Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Final Call"

Box 23 "The Evolution of the Attitude of Malcolm X Toward Whites"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Introducing Reo Joe in Lansing, MI"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Malcolm X" (1983)

Box 23 Copies and Annotation: The Semantics of Salvation" and From Black Muslims to Muslims

Box 23 "Black Power, 1965-1970"

Box 23 "Malcolm, Martin, and the Mandates of Justice,", 1995

Box 23 "The Public Spiritual and Humanistic Odyssey of MX"

Box 23 "The Emotional Basis of Charisma"

Box 23 Intro, 1985

Box 23 Journal Article--"America: A Dream or a Nightmare?"

Box 23 Journal Article--"From Sinners to Saints"

Box 23 Journal Article--"Metaphors & Myths of Cross-Cultural Literacy",, 1987

Box 23 Journal Article--"Finding Malcolm X"

Box 23 Chapter and Annotation:--"Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr."

Box 23 Journal Article--"Kicking Drugs: Self-Affirmation and Enterprise"

Box 23 Journal Article--MX & MLK

Box 23 "The Murder of MX & its Effect on Black America -- 25 Years Later"

Box 23 Excerpt--"Sitting at the Feet of the Messenger"

Box 23 Malcolm X and the Black Liberation Movement

Box 23 Message to the White Man and Woman in America

Box 23 Chapter and Annotation: "White Man's Heaven is a Black Man's Hell"


Box 24 Chapter and Annotation: Malcolm: The Life of a Man who Changed Black America

Box 24 "Alex Haley Remembers", 1992

Box 24 "Introduction," New Day in Babylon, 1992

Box 24 Journal Article--"MX Influence on Black Nationalist Movement…"

Box 24 Journal Article--"From Malcolm Little to El Hajj Malik El Shabazz…",, 1993

Box 24 "Philosophy and Ideology of Malcolm X: Theories and Perspectives"

Box 24 "Merchandising Malcolm X: Melding Man and Myths for Money"

Box 24 Journal Article--"Malcolm X and the Economic Salvation of African Americans"

Box 24 Journal Article--"The Oppositional Logic of MX"

Box 24 "Nihilism in Black America"

Box 24 "The Five Percenters"

Box 24 Chapter Copy and Annotation from the Black Muslins in America

Box 24 "Spike Lee doing Malcolm X: Denying Black Pain"

Box 24 Spike Lee's Malcolm X as Transformational Object", 1995

Box 24 "Malcolm X and Pan-Africanism"

Box 24 Journal Article--"Malcolm X's Prison Debates and Public Confrontations"

Box 24 Journal Article--"What the Civil Rights Movement was and wasn't"

Box 24 Journal Article--"Malcolm X was a Racist"

Box 24 Appointed Minister of Temple #7--Articles

Box 24 Epilogue Robert Penn Warren, 1966

Box 24 Gambino "The Transgression of a Laborer: Malcolm X,", 1993

Box 24 Malcolm X's Childhood, undated

Box 24 Nell Painter on Lee's Film, 1993

Box 24 Newspaper Articles, periodicals, important, 1962-1964

Box 24 Souls--Malcolm X issue, 2009-2010

Box 24 Where To, Black Man: Malcolm X in Ghana, 1964


Box 58 Egyptian Gazette , 1959-1964


Box 38 Various

Subseries VIII.5: Other Publications and Writings about Malcolm X


Box 24 Article and Source Lists, Dissertations, Plays, Poetry, Webliography, 1965-2005, undated, 1965-2005


Box 38 Article and Source Lists, Dissertations, Plays, Poetry, Webliography, 1965-2005, undated, 1965-2005, (3 folders)


Box 58 The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley, 2003,, 2003

This appears to be a proof copy of the text, related to an unidentified Columbia University project.

Subseries VIII.6: Images


Box 25 Photographs (photocopies)


Box 38 Photographs (some originals from AP and photocopies), (4 folders)

Subseries VIII.7 National of Islam Publications


Box 26 Muhammad Speaks log

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks Full Issue, 1961 October -November, 1961

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks Full Issue, 1961 December, 1961

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks Full Issue, 1962 January, 1962

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks Full Issue, 1962 February, 1962

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks First Part of Issue, 1962 March, 1962

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks Portion of Issue (excerpts), 1962

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks Portion of Issue, 1962 May, 1962

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks, 1962 May, 1962

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks, 1962 July, 1962

Box 26 Muhammad Speaks, 1962 July, 1962


Box 39 Various Nation of Islam Publications and Research Files

Subseries VIII.8: Archival Sources


Box 26 Archival Contacts, Finding Aids, Notes, and Sources, undated


Box 39 Archival Contacts, Finding Aids, Notes, and Sources, undated


Box 58 Howard K. Smith Interview with Malcolm X (Wisconsin Historical Society)


Box 59 Binder: Malcolm X Film / MSE Film Assets, plus miscellanous printouts, etc., circa 2005, (4 Folders)

Binder includes Corrinne's NARA order; Story cards for Cheryll's tapes (Malcolm X Stock Footage) 1-6; Story cards from Cheryll that do not correspond to any viewing tape; miscellaneous. Printouts include NARA film logs and stills records, and Library of Congress stills records.