Malcolm X: Make It Plain (Full PBS Documentary)

The 1994 PBS documentary on the life of Malcolm X

He sometimes, if I could catch him, would have to read to the children. They would always want the story read again

so that they would really just wait until he was on the last page and say "read it again."

"Read it again, read it again," you know, and so that he started giving the books different endings.

He had a beautiful sense of humor, especially when he was kidding me about pork and whacking me on the back

and saying that "you're a decent human being, smart historian, I'm going to give you 99 as a human being and

you stop eating pork I'm going to give you 100."

Had a beautiful sense of humor, plus the fact that when you got to know him, he was kind of shy.

[jazzy music]

Malcolm was now in the Nation of Islam's inner circle,

Elijah Muhammad's most visible representative.

He had the Messenger's confidence, and the loyalty

of thousands of Muslims.

In a sense, Malcolm had found a father.

He said, "They're not gonna move for you."