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

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Series IX: Biography Research Files

Series IX consists of research compiled in the preparation and writing of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. It includes biographical files on individuals related to Malcolm X, as well as a detailed and richely researched chronology of major events in Malcolm's life.


Subseries IX.1: Files of Key Persons



Box 39 Bios of Key People



Box 27 Abner, Willoughby, (2 folders)


Box 27 Ali, John, (2 folders)


Box 27 Ali, Muhammad/Cassius Clay, (3 folders)


Box 27 Ameer, Leon 4X


Box 27 Anderson, James X (Shabazz)


Box 27 Angelou, Maya, (2 folders)



Box 39 Angelou, Maya



Box 27 Bailey, A. Peter


Box 27 Baldwin, James, (3 folders)



Box 39 Baldwin, James



Box 27 Baraka, Amiri, (2 folders)


Box 27 Belafonte, Harry, (2 folders)


Box 27 Bey, Abraham, (2 folders)


Box 27 Blackwell, Charles 27X


Box 27 Boggs, James, (2 folders)


Box 27 Bradley, William (William X), (2 folders)



Box 39 Bradley, William (William X)



Box 27 Breitman, George, (2 folders)


Box 27 Brown, William N.


Box 27 Bunche, Ralph, (2 folders)


Box 27 Butler, Norman 3X, (3 folders)


Box 27 Butler, Norman 3X, Talmadge Hayer, and Thomas 15X Johnson


Box 27 Cambridge, Godfrey, (2 folders)


Box 27 Caragulian, Bea


Box 27 Carmichael, Stokely


Box 27 Castro, Fidel, (2 folders)


Box 27 Cathcart, Linwood X


Box 27 Clark, Kenneth, (3 folders)


Box 27 Clarke, John Henrik, (4 folders)


Box 27 Collins, Ella, (3 folders)


Box 27 Core Individuals List


Box 27 Crawford, Marc, (2 folders)


Box 27 Cross, Lonnie X


Box 27 Dallos, Robert E., (2 folders)



Box 28 Davis, Angela, (2 folders)


Box 28 Davis, Jasper, (2 folders)


Box 28 Davis, John DX, (2 folders)


Box 28 Davis, Leon X


Box 28 Davis, Ossie, (4 folders)


Box 28 DeCaro, Louis


Box 28 Dynear, Tynetta, (2 folders)


Box 28 Farmer, James, (4 folders)


Box 28 Farrakhan, Louis, (6 folders)



Box 58 Farrakhan, Louis--Notes, 2007



Box 28 Feelings, Muriel


Box 28 Ferguson, Benjamin and Luqman, Charles 37X

Herman Ferguson, Benjamin Karim, Anas Luqman, and Charles 37X Kenyatta.


Box 28 Ferguson, Herman


Box 28 Foster Families


Box 28 Francis, Reuben



Box 39 Francis, Reuben



Box 28 George, William H.


Box 28 Goldman, Peter, (2 folders)


Box 28 Grant, Earl, (2 folders)


Box 28 Gravitt, Joseph


Box 28 Green, Edith


Box 28 Gregory, Dick, (3 folders)



Box 39 Gregory, Dick



Box 28 Guide to Malcolm X Project Discs of Critical People


Box 28 Haley, Alex, (22 folders)



Box 40 Haley, Alex, (5 folders)



Box 58 Haley, Alex


Box 58 Haley, Alex--Interview with Betty Shabazz about Alex Haley, 1989



Box 29 Handler, M.S.


Box 29 Hansberry, Lorraine


Box 29 Hassan, Lemuel (Anderson)


Box 29 Hassoun, Sheik



Box 40 Hayer, Talmadge



Box 29 Henry, Milton, (2 folders)


Box 29 Hicks, James, (2 folders)


Box 29 Hinton, Johnson X


Box 29 Hughes, Langston


Box 29 Hustler Friends


Box 29 Islam, Khalil (Thomas 15x Johnson), (2 folders)


Box 29 James 3X (minister Newark Mosque), (2 folders)


Box 29 Jarvis, Malcolm, (2 folders)



Box 58 Jarvis, Malcolm "Shorty"



Box 29 Jeremiah X, (2 folders)


Box 29 Johnson, Christine, (2 folders)


Box 29 Johnson, Thomas 15X


Box 29 Joseph, Captain, (3 folders)


Box 29 Karim, Imam Benjamin (Benjamin 2X), (2 folders)


Box 29 Kennedy, John F., (2 folders)


Box 29 Kenyatta, Charles (Charles 37X), (2 folders)


Box 29 Killens, John Oliver, (2 folders)


Box 29 King, Martin Luther, Jr., (2 folders)


Box 29 Kinley, Wilbur


Box 29 Kochiyama, Yuri


Box 29 Leaks, Sylvester, (2 folders)


Box 29 Lennon, William Paul, (3 folders)


Box 29 Lewis, John, (3 folders)


Box 29 Lincoln, C. Eric, (2 folders)



Box 40 Lincoln, C. Eric, (2 folders)



Box 29 Little, Earl, (2 folders)


Box 29 Little, Earl, Jr.


Box 29 Little, Hilda


Box 29 Little, Louise, (5 folders)


Box 29 Little, Philbert (Philbert X), (2 folders)


Box 29 Little, Reginald


Box 29 Little, Robert, (2 folders)


Box 29 Little, Wesley


Box 29 Little, Wilfred (Wilfred X)



Box 40 Little, Wilfred (Wilfred X)



Box 29 Little, Yvonne



Box 30 Lomax, Louis, (2 folders)


Box 30 Luqman, Langston Savage Anas M., (2 folders)



Box 40 Luqman, Langston Savage Anas M.



Box 30 Mayfield, Julian, (2 folders)



Box 53 McCormick, Ken, (2 Folders)



Box 30 McGee, Ernst 2X


Box 30 Michaux, Elder Solomon Lightfoot, (4 folders)



Box 40 Mohammed, Imam W. Deen



Box 30 Muhammad, Akbar, (2 folders)


Box 30 Muhammad, Clara, (2 folders)


Box 30 Muhammad, Elijah



Box 40 Muhammad, Elijah, (2 folders)



Box 30 Muhammad, Elijah, Jr.


Box 30 Muhammad, Herbert, (2 folders)


Box 30 Muhammad, Wallace, (6 folders)


Box 30 Naeem, Abdul Basit, (2 folders)



Box 40 Nkrumah, Kwame



Box 30 Parks, Gordon


Box 30 Perry, Bruce, (3 folders)


Box 30 Plimpton, George, (2 folders)


Box 30 Poole, Sharon X


Box 30 Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., (4 folders)


Box 30 Ramadan, Said, (2 folders)


Box 30 Randolph, A. Philip, (2 folders)


Box 30 Abdur-Razzaq, Abdullah (James 67X Warden)


Box 30 Reed, Greg


Box 30 Reynolds, Jean


Box 30 Richardson, Gloria, (2 folders)


Box 30 Roberts, Gene, (2 folders)


Box 30 Robinson, Jackie, (2 folders)


Box 30 Rockwell, George Lincoln, (3 folders)


Box 30 Rustin, Bayard, (2 folders)



Box 31 Sanchez, Sonia, (2 folders)


Box 31 Sandifer, Jawn and Edward Jacko


Box 31 Shabazz Daughters


Box 31 Shabazz Family, (2 folders)


Box 31 Shabazz, Betty


Box 31 Sharieff, Ethel


Box 31 Sharieff, Raymond, (2 folders)


Box 31 Shawarbi, Mahmood Youssef, (2 folders)


Box 31 Shifflett, Lynn


Box 31 Smith, Robert 35X


Box 31 Socialists


Box 31 Stanford, Max, (3 folders)


Box 31 Stokes, Ronald, (3 folders)


Box 31 Thomas, Benjamin X, (3 folders)


Box 31 Thomas, Cary 2X


Box 31 Timberlake, Ronald


Box 31 Tynes, Morris, (2 folders)


Box 31 Ulysses X


Box 31 Wallace, Mike


Box 31 Whitney, George 28X


Box 31 Wilkins, Roy, (5 folders)


Box 31 Young, Whitney, (3 folders)


Box 31 Zuber, Paul, (2 folders)


Subseries IX.2: Chronology



Box 32 Chronology Documentation



Box 33 Chronology Documentation



Box 34 Chronology Documentation



Box 35 Chronology Documentation



Box 58 Chronology, 1964 May-July



Box 55 Chronologies, 2004


Subseries IX.3: Research Files



Box 41 Early Subject Files on Malcolm X Biography, 1990-1993

Consists of newspaper clippings, indices and abtracts to articles, photocopies of FBI documents, photocopies of speeches, and chronologies on the life of Malcolm X done while Dr. Marable was at the University of Colorado.



Box 40 Assassination Research, (13 folders)



Box 54 Assassination Research, 1965, (24 Folders)



Box 48 Research--Copy of Assassination Packet



Box 40 Chapter 1, (11 folders)

Contains material on Malcolm X's mother and background research on Michigan and Detroit.



Box 58 Chapter 1, Primary Sources



Box 40 Chapter 2, (2 folders)


Box 40 Chapter 3


Box 40 Chapter 4



Box 53 Chapter 9, (4 Folders)


Box 53 Chapter 10, (2 Folders)


Box 53 Chapter 11


Box 53 Chapter 13



Box 58 Chapter 16



Box 40 Africa, Islam, American Jewish Committee, (10 folders)


Box 40 Charlestown Prison


Box 40 Malcolm X Essential File


Box 40 Malcolm X Eviction Trial


Box 40 Malcolm X and Gender



Box 58 Russell Rickford / MX Bios, Chapters XI-XV



Box 40 Rochdale Movement



Box 58 Research Materials--Miscellaneous, (2 Folders)