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CLEVELAND — A set of 16 postcards from civil rights activist Malcolm X to a woman in Cleveland has been sold at auction for more than $56,000.

Nate D. Sanders Auctions says the handwritten cards from 1957, 1958 and 1964 went for $56,426.25 in Los Angeles last week.

The cards were written to Gloria Owens. She was the sister of Maceo X Owens, secretary at a Muhammad’s Temple of Islam in New York where Malcolm X preached alongside Louis Farrakhan.

The postcards feature landmarks and depictions of African-American life from Malcolm X’s U.S. and global travels. That included images that denigrated or stereotyped blacks. Sometimes he sent racist cartoons.

 

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Article Courtesy of WKYC Channel 3 News Cleveland

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Malcolm X Postcards Sent to Cleveland Woman Sell Big in Auction  was originally published on wzakcleveland.com

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