To Speak of Black Violence

The Voice of Malcolm

When the time came, Malcolm X was going to “unveil” his program—that specific cause-and-effect linking of actions to goals which would bring about equality for black people in the United States. Since his was the most dramatic rejection of the civil rights movement, it was only natural to ask Malcolm for his alternative: how, exactly, could violence create the social and economic parity that nonviolence had failed to bring?