With upside-down Thomas Jefferson postage stamp
Autograph postcard signed ("Bro Malcolm").
Oblong small 8vo. 1 p. With cancelled two-cent postage stamp featuring the bust of Thomas Jefferson (inverted, presumably in protest).
A note to Roy Munford and his family in Jersey City: "As Salaam Alaikum. Greetings from Battle Creek. This Teaching is fast-spreading every where".
On the verso is a photograph showing the entrance to the Youth Building in the Irving Park neighborhood of Battle Creek, Michigan.
On 24 January 1965, just weeks before being murdered, Malcolm X delivered a speech in Harlem in which he encouraged a critical review of the narrative surrounding America's "founding fathers," singling out Thomas Jefferson as being especially worthy of condemnation by pointing out that his belief in the words he authored - "all men are created equal" - while owning slaves, implied that he did not intend those words to apply to the enslaved. For such hypocrisy, Malcolm X argued, African Americans should look upon Jefferson with the same contempt he showed them (Malcolm X on Afro-American History, 1965).
Minor scattered soiling.
