MALCOLM X’S FIRST PUBLISHED PIECE
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(ISLAM.) MALCOLM X.
We were a Dead people . . . But when we Heard
Messenger Muhammad. WE AROSE FROM THE DEAD.
Five page article written
by Malcolm X,
HIS FIRST PUBLISHED PIECE
[in] Moslem World & the U.S.A., August-
September, 1956.
TOGETHER WITH
April-May, 1956; June-July, 1956; October-December,
1956 and the Special Convention Issue, April-May, 1957, an unbroken run. Well illustrated,
uniform small 4to’s with all original wrappers intact.
Brooklyn: Abdul Basit Naeem, publisher, 1956
[3,000/4,000]
M
ALCOLM X
’
S FIRST PUBLISHED PIECE APPEARS IN THIS IMPORTANT BUT SHORT
-
LIVED
PERIODICAL
.
Apart from the two first issues: January, 1955 and October-November-
December, 1955, this is an unbroken run of Moslem World and the U.S.A. This
well-produced and well-written magazine was the first such illustrated monthly journal of
Islam published in the United States. Malcolm X was minister of the New York Temple of
Islam at this time and he and Elijah Muhammad share the front cover as “Disciple and
Teacher.”
OCLC LOCATES ONLY
6
INSTITUTIONAL HOLDINGS OF THIS PERIODICAL
,
NOT
ALL ARE COMPLETE
.
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