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MALCOLM X'S FIRST PUBLISHED PIECE (ISLAM.) MALCOLM X. We were a Dead people . . . But when we Heard Messenger Muhammad. WE AROSE FROM THE DEAD. Five page article written by Malcolm X, his first published piece [in] Moslem World & the U.S.A., August-September, 1956. together with April-May, 1956; June-July, 1956; October-December, 1956 and the Special Convention Issue, April-May, 1957, an unbroken run. Well illustrated, uniform small 4to's with all original wrappers intact. Brooklyn: Abdul Basit Naeem, publisher, 1956
Malcolm x's first published piece appears in this important but short-lived periodical. Apart from the two first issues: January, 1955 and October-November-December, 1955, this is an unbroken run of Moslem World and the U.S.A. This well-produced and well-written magazine was the first such illustrated monthly journal of Islam published in the United States. Malcolm X was minister of the New York Temple of Islam at this time and he and Elijah Muhammad share the front cover as 'Disciple and Teacher.' oclc locates only 6 institutional holdings of this periodical, not all are complete.
