The Assassination of Malcolm X

Exposes the cover-up surrounding the murder of Malcolm X and probes once-secret FBI files that shed light on the government’s hostility to him and point toward its complicity in the crime.

Appendix: Secret FBI memos on the Black movement.

“A reporter who covered the trial and two writers specializing in the black movement and Malcolm X literature collaborate to raise the question of police/government involvement in the assassination and to call for a new investigation.” —Booklist

George Breitman (1916–1986) joined the communist movement in 1935. He was a member the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party from 1939 to 1981. Left the SWP in 1983. Breitman is coauthor of The Assassination of Malcolm X (1991); author of The Last Year of Malcolm X: Evolution of a Revolutionary (1967); and editor of Malcolm X Speaks (1965) and By Any Mean Necessary (1970).

Herman Porter is a contributor to The Assassination of Malcolm X published by Pathfinder Press.

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Baxter Smith (1944– ) is a contributor to The Assassination of Malcolm X published by Pathfinder Press.