![]() ![]() In Haley’s archives at Duke University, Eig found what appears to be an unedited transcript of the interview. Journalist Jonathan Eig first noticed something was amiss while conducting archival research for his new biography of King, reports the Washington Post’s Gillian Brockell. during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ![]() But now, new research suggests that Haley fabricated them. Fiery, demagogic oratory in the Black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as he has done, can reap nothing but grief.įor decades, King’s comments have been repeated in history books and classrooms across the country. And in his litany of articulating the despair of the Negro without offering any positive, creative alternative, I feel that Malcolm has done himself and our people a great disservice. … I have often wished that he would talk less of violence, because violence is not going to solve our problem. I totally disagree with many of his political and philosophical views-at least insofar as I understand where he now stands. The piece famously includes quotes from King that are critical of Malcolm X: In 1965, journalist Alex Haley published an interview with Martin Luther King Jr.-the longest he ever gave-in Playboy magazine. ![]()
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