Lecture 16. From Voting Rights to Watts

American History: From Emancipation to the Present (AFAM 162) In this lecture, Professor Holloway revisits Malcolm X s life in order to offer a more nuanced interpretation of the black leader than is traditionally taught. Professor Holloway links Malcolm X to a tradition of black intellectuals and political activists like Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and Robert Williams, and he explores the philosophy of the Nation of Islam (NOI), the organization for which Malcolm X is the national spokesman befor