Author Jonathan Eig was researching his new biography of Martin Luther King Jr. when he made an alarming discovery: King’s most famous criticism of Malcolm X, in which he accused him of being “fiery, demagogic oratory,” appears to have been fabricated.
Malcolm X, a member of the Nation of Islam, had frequently attacked King and his commitment to nonviolence, going so far as to call King a “modern Uncle Tom.” But his criticism often had “strategic purposes,” Eig said.
document, Haley asks, “Dr. King, would you care to comment upon the articulate former Black Muslim, Malcolm X?” “Fiery, demagogic oratory in the black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence …” Indeed, in another part of the transcript, Haley asks King about critics labeling him an “extremist,” to which King responded: “At first, it disturbed me. Then I began to consider that, yes, I would like to think myself an extremist — in the light of Christ-like spirit which made Jesus an extremist for love.”
“We know on other occasions King is talking about Malcolm X without mentioning him at all,” Joseph said. “In this specific case, we have more clarification about how certain media wanted to pit them against each other and use Dr. King as a cudgel against Malcolm.”, and briefly, outside a Senate hearing at the U.S. Capitol on March 26, 1963.
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