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February 1965: The Final Speeches (Malcolm X speeches & writings)

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This book is badly needed for people who are still stuck on the NOI days of malcolm. In 1964 on, he became a true sunni muslim and activist for the human rights of African Americans in the USA and the struggle for human rights abroad. This book surveys his last speeches and interviews in 1965. You will know who he evolved into and why we muslims call him the Shahid al Amrika the American Muslim Martyr.

The final speeches of Malcolm X was very good and emotional moving. This person has a way with persuativity and I really recommmend this book not only to Muslims or to Blacks but to people in general for we all have suffered inequality one way or another. This book gets to the core of your being and you cant help but be moved by it.

Anyone with an interest in Black History should read this book. Talk about an eloquent speaker!

The Final Speeches represents yet another look at Malcolm's ideas and values through interviews and speeches he gives during the last month of his life. A particularly funny moment happens during a radio debate where Malcolm verbally destroys an obnoxious "expert" on extremist organizations.

The reader will get to see how Malcolm comes to terms with the mistakes that he made while still in the Nation of Islam. The reader will also get an idea on the direction that Malcolm was heading in, the Pan-Africanist approach that sought to unite Afro-Americans with Africans to forge an unbreakable alliance against, racism, imperialism and colonialism.

This is definitely a great read and a lot of the material here is still relevant today. A very good example being Malcolm's exposing how the press manipulates the public with false imagery. Malcolm was pretty much predicting many of the false political networks of today, like Fox News. One of the best qualities about Malcolm X was that he was a great thinker, and this is why I find him so admirable and why I love reading about him.

Today Malcolm X can be seen everywhere from t-shirts to U.S. postage stamps. Most people have an opinion about him. But not nearly as many have heard/read his actual words. This collection of speeches is an excellent way to rectify that. This book takes the reader virtually to Malcolm's last words spoken in public two days before his [...].
The collection includes speeches, interviews, panel discussions, and gives the reader a rich and genuine undertanding of Malcolm X in his final days as a statesman and revolutionary leader.
His internationalist view comes through in "Not just an American problem, but a world problem " He defines the Black Muslim movement, and the critical importance of education and critical thinking. This is a must read.

An outstanding collection of speeches from the important last year of Malcolm's life. This is a must read for any student of U.S. history from any point of view. It will be most helpful to to those looking to change the status quo.

Well edited and indexed. Excellent photos. A well put together book.

Raul Gonzalez

This is the best book of Malcolms speeches from that last period in his life when he was most evolved. A must have!!!!!!!!!!

These speeches were written as Malcolm's home was being bombed, as men who would murder him were following him across the country, when he was switching residences every day. This is a man fighting for his life, not for himself, but for the struggle for Black liberation he had long served and for the broader world-wide battle against capitalism and imperialism he had joined. Of decisive importance is his unmaking of the corruption of the Nation of Islam, of its terror tactics against dissenters, its financial swindles, its dealings with racist and facists. If they were most obviously among those who wished his death, he also shows his sense that the CIA, FBI, NYPD and other US government forces were his real enemy.

The speeches also touch onhis growing involvement in the civil rights movement in America as well as Malcolm's growing concern with the war in Vietnam and the need to support African liberation fighters in the Congo and beyond.

Very importantly, the material in this book contains an approach to what Elijah Mohammed and Louis Farrahkahn are about that Malcolm wanted to included in his autobiography. He wanted to revise the book to expose them, but his murder prevented it.


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