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This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City
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This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On Sunday, February 21, 1965, a little after 3pm, as he was preparing to address his Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York’s Audubon Ballroom, the controversial civil rights leader and revolutionary Malcolm X was shot dead by members of the Nation of Islam, the religious sect X had broken from the year before. He was 39. “In the aftermath, rivers of ink spilled …
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