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Message to the Grass Roots from Malcolm X

1965

Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A 33 1/3 rpm LP record album titled "Message to the Grass Roots from Malcolm X" by Malcolm X. The front of the cover is red with white and black text. At the center of the cover there is a black and white image of Malcolm X. The back of the cover has three images of Malcolm X down the middle and information about the album on either side of the images. There is an inscription of a name [Mateo] in the upper left corner. The album has an Afro Records green label on both sides. Both sides feature excerpts from an address delivered at King Solomon's Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan, November 10, 1963 to the Northern Grass Roots Leadership Conference and the name Mateo scratched out on the label.

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Catalog reference: 2012.88.7ab

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