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![Speech by Malcolm X at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, 1964](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: KP 056Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Charles HobsonCollection: Malcolm X
Speech given at DNC about how some African countries won their independence through anger and violence. Black people must speak the language of the captors and recognize that what happens in Mississippi has nationwide impact. There is no difference between Northern and Southern Democrats because they work as a whole not as separate parts. Freedom is not something that is given to you, you must take it and Black people must be equipped to do that in the same way that others have done it in the past. Audio tape is cut off at the end.
![Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
In this talk, one of his best known speeches, Malcolm X demonstrates the vision which contributed greatly to the new militancy within black organizations.
Please see http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/malcolmxballot.htm
for full transcription of the speech.
![The Ballot or the Bullet](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Malcolm X made a great contribution in helping to clarify the relationship between reform and revolution, between solving problems through electoral action versus solving problems through retaliatory violence. He stressed that Blacks were kept down through the force of racist violence and murder. But Malcolm X did more than this, because he attempted to lay down a program of Black unity, what he called Black nationalism. The issue he raised is the relationship of Black nationalism to reform and to revolution. This is an ideological issue of great importance.
![1964 Speech by Malcolm X](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Malcolm X discusses Black Nationalism as the means to freedom for African Americans. He suggests bringing the U.S. government before a world court because of its treatment of African Americans.
Speech begins at 1:59
![Malcolm X Speaking](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A compilation of excerpts from speeches given by Malcolm X. The first speech compares the nonviolent protest method employed by the civil rights movement and the black militancy, or self-defense strategy of Black Power and the Nation of Islam. The second speech describes the role of the United Nations in the global black liberation movement. Side 2 includes three speeches about the Birmingham Sunday School Bombing, and more on black militancy and nationalism.
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