#BlackHistory: Student uncovers lost Malcolm X tape

Ever since Malcolm X was killed, every detail of his life has been scoured. At least that’s what Malcolm Burnley thought … until, as a senior at Brown University, he discovered a story about a campus visit.

“Reading his autobiography was a really big moment in my adolescence,” said Burnley, who said he realized that Malcolm X was on his campus, but he didn’t know about it. “I didn’t know about it, and no one knew about it.”

Burnley had come across a 1961 article in the Brown Daily Herald written by a student named Katherine Pierce, who argued that integration of the races was the key to progress. Malcolm X had read the article and came to Brown to push back.

Malcolm Burnley“My instinct was to find her phone number,” said Burnley. “Hope that she was still alive and really remembered the entire story.”

She even had a tape of that night in Sayles Hall that included her own introduction.



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In fact, Malcolm X would change his, moving closer to Pierce’s belief in integration before he died. Four years after he traveled to Brown.









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