Acknowledgments
This article was adapted from Carson's “A Common Solution,” published in Emerge, February 1998.
Notes
1. Alex Haley, with Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Grove Press, 1965).
2. Among the few biographies of Malcolm X that displays original biographical research that extends beyond Haley's Autobiography is Bruce Perry's iconoclastic psychobiography, Malcolm X: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (New York: Station Hill, 1991).
3. Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1.
4. Clayborne Carson, ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Warner Books, 1998), 4, 5.
5. Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 4.
6. Martin Luther King, “An Autobiography of Religious Development,” in Clayborne Carson et al., eds., The Papers of Martin Lutehr King, Jr., Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929–June 1951, 111.
7. Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 14.
8. King, “An Autobiography of Religious Development,” 360.
9. Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 31.
10. Martin Luther King, “The Negro and the Constitution,” in Clayborne Carson et al., eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929–June 1951, 111.
11. Carson, ed., Autobiography, 16.
12. Ibid., 139.
13. Ibid., 197.
14. Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 291.
15. Clayborne Carson, Malcolm X: The FBI File (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991), 203–204.
16. Carson, ed., Autobiography, 233.
17. Haley, 293.
18. “Message to the Grass Roots, November 10, 1963,” in Geore Breitman, ed., Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speaches and Statements (New York: Merit Publishers, 1965), 17.
19. Carson, ed., Autobiography, 267.
20. Ibid., 265–266.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., 268.
23. Ibid., 265.
24. Ibid., 268.