Malcolm X

This volume covers an era in the black leader's public life during which his evolving attitudes can slowly be detected. Malcolm addresses the crowd at a 1963 Black Front Unity Rally. He gives his opinion on the supposed effect of the Civil Rights Act on race relations, speaks out about housing and self-defense in Harlem in 1964, and discusses police brutality with CBS News' Mike Wallace. Excerpts from the famous 1964 "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech deal with black nationalism, the civil rights movement and the failed promises of the Democratic party. After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm's "By Any Means Necessary" speech proposes African American unification among all denominations. Finally, just a week before he would be assassinated, Malcolm X decries the February 14, 1965 fire-bombing of his house.