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| | village voice > news > What Becomes a Legend Most? by Thulani Davis |
 | | People outside of her family may never know why Malikah Brown, one of the six daughters of Malcolm X, loaded up a sizable collection of his manuscripts, diaries, photographs, and negatives, and secretly hauled them off to a storage locker in Florida and then never reclaimed them. |
 | | Malcolm built many temples in life, but after his 1965 assassination, his widow, Betty, and daughters (Attalah, Qubilah, Ilyasah, Gamilah, Malaak, and Malikah) were left in great jeopardy and his possessions were scattered. |
 | | Of the materials listed in the sketchy Butterfields catalog for "the Malcolm X Collection," Shabazz scholars are especially excited by the handwritten manuscripts, his annotated personal Koran, and diaries from the last weeks of his life, which included travel to Mecca, Africa, and Europe. |
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