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Q:

As a matter of fact, wasn't a good deal of such higher education as he got through his own efforts done in prison?

Clark:

Yes. Yes, and he wasn't ashamed of this.

Q:

I heard him use this in his perorations up in Harlem, on the boulevard up there.

Clark:

Did you ever interview him?

Q:

I interviewed him for the NBC [National Broadcasting Corp.] news special in 1963 called “American Revolution '63”. That was a filmed interview. A good deal of that did go on the air. I proposed him for oral history, but I must confess that I told my director or record then, Louis Starr, that he should be aware that Malcolm's rhetoric was anti-Christian (particularly anti-Catholic), anti-Semitic, and as whole anti-white. He was never invited. That was about 1962.

Clark:

Let me ask you a question. Was it not true that there was a long period of time before the oral history group did in fact invite blacks? I heard this, and was sort of surprised.

Q:

I don't know the full history of this. I can tell you however that when I was invited to interview for them, or recruited to interview for them--which was in early 1961--I was initially brought in to interview blacks, which suggests that they did not have blacks,





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