[ Autographs ] MALCOLM X (1925 - 1965) American civil rights and Muslim leader, a brilliant orator who preached black separatism and nationalism, assassinated while giving a speech in Harlem. Fine content D.S. "Malcolm X" with one autograph correction 1p. 4to., [n.p. n.d.], a page from Alex Haley's interview with Malcolm X for Playboy Magazine. Before publication, Malcolm X insisted upon editing the typescript and signing each page when approved. In part: "...But I don't want to use up all the time talking about the Jew calling the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's followers anti-Semitic. But I want to tellyou what I always think about every time I hear that. I think about the Jews changing their names -- trying to become exactly what's the worst anti-Semite there is, the Anglo-Saxon Christian. The Jew ought to stop wasting his time investigating the black man. [Next sentence crossed out by Malcolm:] We're both threatened by the same enemy. The answer for the black man that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching is --separate! From everything white. [Haley's question:] Mr.Malcolm, one has almost no choice but to infer that you feel that no white man on earth can be trusted by what you term the `black man'? [Malcolm:] I say, sir, you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence. And if any man will study the entire history of the relationship between the white man and the black man, no evidence willbe found that justifies any confidence or faith that the black man might have in the white man today. [Haley:]...Behind every Negro advancement somewhere has stood the sincere efforts of white men to help them advance...[for example] the tens of thousands of scholarships-- [Malcolm:] Sir, a man who tosses worms in the river isn't necessarily a friend of the fish..." Boldly signed at bottom. Matted and framed with a photograph of Malcolm X. Fine condition.