MALCOLM X : THE FBI FILE Written by - Clayborne Carson
Introduction by - Spike Lee
Edited by - David Gallen
One World Ballantine Books

The FBI opened its file on Malcolm X shortly after his release from a Boston prison in March 1953. Twelve years later - on February 21, 1965 - he was assassinated in a hail of bullets. Yet his fascinating story survived his violent death - and a vital part of that story is found here in MALCOLM X : THE FBI FILE. This extraordinary work distills the voluminous file kept on the most controversial and charismatic civil rights leader [my comment - Malcolm WAS NOT a civil rights leader. He staunchly opposed civil rights because of the restriction in which it implies], which ran to more than thirty-six hundred pages. Accompanied by the incisive commentaries of Clayborne Carson, a leading scholar of the American Civil Rights movement, this fascinating biographical and historical document, one that sheds light on both Malcolm X and the government compelled to monitor him.