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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821482903321

Autore

Ambar Saladin M

Titolo

Malcolm X at Oxford Union : racial politics in a global era / / Saladin Ambar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-997549-3

0-19-997548-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Transgressing Boundaries : Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities

Classificazione

POL004000POL000000

Disciplina

320.54/6092

Soggetti

Speeches, addresses, etc., American

Debates and debating - England

United States Politics and government 1963-1969

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Malcolm X at Oxford Union; Copyright; CONTENTS; CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS; A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR; Prologue: 1964; Chapter 1 Introduction: "This is an interesting despatch"; Chapter 2 Extremism: "The revolution is now on the inside of the house"; Chapter 3 Liberty: "Please forward by any means necessary"; Chapter 4 Moderation: "It is no part of the moderate to refuse to fi ght"; Chapter 5 Justice: "To take up arms against a sea of troubles"; Chapter 6 Virtue: "Authentic revolutionary"; Epilogue: "Defiance"; THE OXFORD ADDRESS AT THE OXFORD UNION DEBATE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic of debate that evening was the infamous phrase from Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention speech:""Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."" At a time when Malcolm was traveling widely and advocating on behalf of blacks in America and other nations, his thirty minute speech at the Oxford Union stands out as one of the great addresses of the civil rights era. Delivered just months



before his assassination, the speech followed a per