Unpublished texts from the autobiography of Malcolm X found and sold at auction

The legend about the existence of these pbadages, excluded from the literary work after the badbadination of Malcolm X for their character deemed incendiary, is therefore true. In 1992, the rumor of undisclosed materials about the life of the black activist spreads. The documents allegedly belonged to Alex Haley, the writer who collaborated with Malcolm X in the production of the posthumously published work.
 

Despite the consultation a few years later of these writings by a biographer, the mystery of their existence had never been solved since. But it was not counting on an auction dedicated to African American artifacts held in Manhattan on Thursday.
 

During this sale, participants were able to purchase this fifteenth chapter entitled "The Negro" as well as the manuscript of the published book including commentaries by Malcolm X and Alex Hayes.
 

Cultural Enrichment

The African-American Culture Research Center of the New York Public Library Schomburg won the first document auction with a $ 7,000 proposal. The other manuscript, set at a minimum price of $ 40,000, did not find an initial buyer. The Research Center then seized them for an unknown sum. Many intellectuals congratulated the acquisition of these new documents by a cultural center and not by a private collector who could have jeopardized their consultation.
 

In chapter fifteen, probably written before his break with the Muslim organization "Nation of Islam" that he will pay with his life, Malcolm X denounces without restraint the hypocrisy of the White America as well as the disillusions "black fundamentalists". The year before his death in 1965, this symbol of the African-American cause had nevertheless returned to his extreme positions of separatism.
 

All these new writings by the militant of the 1950s could shed light on Malcolm X's fluctuation of opinion over the years, especially after his departure from the American political-religious organization "Nation of Islam". As Kevin Young says, Schomburg's director of the library: "
   having the version of the autobiography of Malcolm X commented, and being able to follow his train of thought, is incredibly powerful ".