Notes
I am especially grateful to Sherie M. Randolph for her thoughtful suggestions about the historical stakes of Malcolm and Betty's union.
Manning Marable, Malcolm X.: A Life of Reinvention (New York: Viking, 2011), pp. 100–101.
Malcolm X (with Alex Haley), The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Grove Press, 1965), 11.
Marable, Malcolm X, p. 32.