Explore "The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union" by Stephen Tuck on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Mr. Chairman, tonight is the first night that I've have ever had opportunity to be as near to conservatives as I am. -Malcolm X, Oxford Union debate, introductory remarks
Malcolm X had to wait over an hour before he was called to speak. Usually when he gave a speech, he was the featured speaker, and the way the Oxford speech has been remembered in the history books since, it would be easy to assume that that was the case here. But no: at the Union, he had to take his turn in line, the third speaker in support of a motion proposed by Tony Abrahams, and the fifth speaker (of six) overall.