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A sales house in New York surprised us by offering writings by the speaker and black activist in the United States who were to incorporate his book of memoirs. They were bought by a center dedicated to research on African-American culture.
Lost writings deemed sulfurous and surrounded by mystery have reappeared. A long, censored chapter of Malcolm X's autobiography and handwritten notes were sold at auction on Thursday for $ 7,000 in the United States. The public has never been aware of these writings that may include revelations. The manuscript of The Autobiography, co-authored with journalist Alex Haley, was also for sale. This document was for years the property of Gregory Reed, one of the lawyers for Rosa Parks who bought the collection in 1992.
At this event organized by the Guernsey House in Manhattan, the sale of a 25-page chapter entitled The Negro as well as handwritten notes was concluded for $ 7,000 by Schomburg, a center of research on black culture. On the other hand, no offer has been made publicly for the version of the published manuscript whose price has been set at $ 40,000. According to the New York Times the document was however acquired by the Schomburg Center located on Malcolm Boulevard X, New York, for an undisclosed price.
The Autobiography "is one the most important books of the twentieth century, "explained to New York Times Kevin Young, the director of Schomburg . "To have the version with the corrections of Malcolm X and to be able to see his thoughts take shape, is incredibly powerful," he says.
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African-American Culture Celebrated
The sale titled African American Historic & Cultural Treasures also included the Detroit House where Rosa Parks lived, and which had been purchased by an artist, dismantled and shipped to Germany, then put on sale again. Its starting price was estimated at $ 1 million, it did not find a buyer. But buyers were mostly surprised by the sale dedicated to Malcolm X. The texts of the manuscript "Autobiography" remained in the possession of Alex Haley, and when he died, were dispersed at auction to pay the estate expenses. The documents were sold for more than $ 100,000 to Gregory Reed, a Detroit-area lawyer who defended Rosa Parks and various musicians from the Motown .
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Malcolm X, through his retrieved writings, does not provide information about his own life, but instead reveals a long and ruthless badysis of what he sees as the hypocrisies of white America and the illusions of integrationist blacks. Now these publications have fallen into the public domain and can be the subject of in-depth studies, which will certainly reveal new parts of the shadows of the civil rights activist badbadinated on February 21, 1965.
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