Happy Birthday Malcolm X!

Malcolm X, Grass Roots Speech
Detroit, Michigan, November 1963, LP cover
Source: Virgin Vinyl Records

Malcolm X, Grass Roots Speech
Detroit, Michigan, November 1963, LP cover
Source: Virgin Vinyl Records

Malcolm X Speaks to the People in Harlem, LP cover
Source: Virgin Vinyl Records

Malcolm X, Our Black Shining Prince, memorial button (1965)
Source: Hake’s Collectibles

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, original paperback cover
Source: Green Cheese Party
Dick Gregory, Write Me In! book cover (1968)
Source: Ethan Persoff
You can download a PDF of the book here

The Black Panther newspaper, January 1969
Art director and illustration: Emory Douglas
Source: Geotypografika
Elaine Brown, Black Panther Party leader
Part of the exhibit Freedom Now: Photographs by Platon, at the New York Historical Society
Don’t miss this amazing collection of photographs of civil rights and black power activists which originally appeared in The New Yorker.