The Missing Chapter Of Malcolm X’s Autobiography That Resurfaced Decades Later

The Missing Pages Of Malcolm X's Autobiography That Changed Its Literary History (Picture Credit – Pinterest)

The most revealing pages of a famous autobiography may be the ones readers never had the chance to see. On 29 October 1965, 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' was published eight months after the civil rights leader's assassination. It became a landmark of political literature, yet a chapter missing from its pages would remain largely inaccessible for more than half a century. That chapter, titled The Negro, resurfaced publicly in 2018, raising unsettling questions about what Malcolm X wanted his book to say and how his story was shaped after his death.

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The rediscovery came when the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library, acquired Malcolm X manuscripts at auction. Among them were an unpublished, 25-page typescript of The Negro, handwritten notes and draft pages containing corrections by both Malcolm and journalist Alex Haley. The papers had passed through Haley's estate, been sold in 1992 and remained in private ownership for decades. The library's catalogue now identifies two versions of the missing chapter…

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