Malcolm X Autobiography’s Lost Chapters

June 7th, 2010

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was the first non childrens book that I read cover to cover. After seeing the Spike Lee film X in the fall of my 9th grade year in 1992, it inspired me to want to gain more insight and knowledge. So I made an appointment for the following summer to read the book, which I did.

Ilyasah Shabazz in front of Mural of Malcolm X
Ilyasah Shabazz in front of Mural of her father, Malcolm X

With that, I had never even heard of the following until a recent article came out that was pointed out to me by a friend:

Detroit attorney Gregory J. Reed is leading a national resurrection — and re-evaluation — of Malcolm X, 18 years after he bought the manuscripts omitted from the slain human rights leader’s autobiography.

The just-released four “lost chapters,” Reed told me last week, were dropped from Alex Haley’s “Autobiography of Malcolm X,” published in 1965, because they showed a broader view of humanity and freedom that was out of sync with the separatist tone of the rest of the work.

Malcolm X signed an agreement, on March 21, 1964, just before a trip to the Middle East and pilgrimage to Mecca, authorizing publication of the original 17-chapter manuscript, including those unpublished chapters. Reed said Haley also wanted the lost chapters released and even told Kenneth McCormick, then executive editor of Doubleday, that they were the autobiography’s most important material.

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