The Real Malcolm X

CBS News looks at Malcolm X focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965 suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family friends colleagues scholars and writers CBS documents Malcolms move from being Elijah Muhammads deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm Maya Angelou Dick Gregory and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments He was our manhood eulogized Ossie Davis