MALCOLM X FBI FILES

4065 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM covering Malcolm X, first identified in the files as Malcolm K. Little. Malcolm X was the Minister of the Nation of Islam until March 1964 when he left this group and formed the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, while delivering a speech in New York City. Norman Butler, Thomas Johnson, and Talmage Hayer were convicted of his murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Malcolm X was released from prison in August 1952 and by February 1953 the FBI had a file open on him. The files give FBI accounts of intercepted personal correspondences, eavesdropped phone conversations, information from informants, newspaper articles, radio and television interviews, sermons and speeches.