Malcolm X speaks with a group of students at Queens College, Queens, N.Y., May 5, 1960. The sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, the youth wanted change, and these

May 28, 1963: Malcolm X reads LIFE Magazine May 31, 1963 issue. I photographed him for the first time in 1961 at a Black Muslim rally in Washington. Over the following eight months, Malcolm periodically allowed me into his entourage. We developed a strong friendship. Some of my friends guessed that I was physically attracted to the leader; I told them that it was electrifying to be near him. I followed him to meetings and rallies across the country. People yelled, “Kill the w

Malcolm X appeared with psychologist Kenneth Clark on the 1963 special "The Negro and the American Promise" June, 1963. Not long ago, the black man in America was fed a dose of another form of the weakening, lulling and deluding effects of so-called "integration." It was that "Farce in Washington," I call it. The idea of a mass of blacks marching on Washington was originally the brainchild of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' A. Philip Randolph. For twenty or more yea