April 30, 2025
A letter Malcolm X penned after being silenced for his remarks on JFK’s assassination offered at public sale for over $10,000.
A historic typed and hand-signed letter from Malcolm X, addressing the backlash he confronted for his controversial remarks on JFK’s assassination, offered at an public sale for $11,344.
The April 24 public sale by Nate D. Sanders Auctions noticed bidding for the letter start at $7,500 and shut after three bids have been made, in accordance with the public sale web site. The piece of historical past, dated December 11, 1963, was crafted by Malcolm X simply days after his controversial “chickens coming residence to roost” remarks relating to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination that came about weeks prior.
Malcolm X was responding to Gloria Owens-Maceo X, the secretary at Elijah Muhammad’s Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, New York, the place Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan would preach. The letter, typed on his private Malik Shabazz Islamic stationery, highlights Malcolm X’s response to the 90-day suspension from public talking he acquired from Nation of Islam chief Elijah Muhammad relating to his remarks about JFK.
“I’m nonetheless the Minister of Muhammad’s Mosque, however my talking and public appearances have been curtailed, ‘suspended’ for an indefinite interval,” Malcolm X wrote. “Truly, that is for good as a result of for 10 years I’ve stored a really quick tempo, and that is the one method I may ever get any relaxation.”
He closed the letter with a hanging metaphor, reflecting on his suspension and standing agency in his beliefs about JFK’s assassination.
“The one technique to cease a rooster from crowing is to cease the solar from rising,” Malcolm X wrote. “When the rooster sees the sunshine, by nature, it’s time for him to crow. As soon as we all know who the satan is, it’s troublesome to maintain all that gentle to ourselves. We simply should crow.”
The revolutionary chief initially made the controversial remarks at a Nation of Islam rally in New York on December 1, 1963. Through the speech, Malcolm X criticized America’s historical past of world violence and referred to JFK’s assassination as “a case of chickens coming residence to roost.” Elijah Muhammad took challenge with Malcolm X’s remarks after instructing him to stay silent, resulting in Malcolm X’s 90-day suspension from talking or participating with the press.
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