Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later

npr.org — Brown University senior Malcolm Burnley was working on a class assignment in the library archives last fall when he made a startling discovery: a forgotten speech that Malcolm X, the Muslim minister and human rights activist, had made to the university in 1961. Feb 5, 2012 View in Crawl 4

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Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later

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greatwhitmonkey Feb 5, 2012

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Should it not be "Found Malcolm X speech"? If it's Lost, by definition its not avalible.

rdesilva Feb 5, 2012StaffSubmitter

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This is a great story - also shows the spirit of a young Richard Holbrooke.

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lethain Feb 5, 2012Staff

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It is a great story, made possible by one audio recording stored in a forgotten attic. What will we recover in years to come as attics contain terabytes of data instead of an megs (leading to the next question: how much data can a cassette store anyway...)

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