The first episode of Mike Wallace's five-part television series aired in New York. Its framing cast the Nation of Islam as a spectacle of Black extremism, but the broadcast also introduced Malcolm to a mass audience and helped expand the movement's reach. The episode illustrates how commercial media could amplify Black voices while filtering them through a dominant narrative that treated white supremacy as background and Black resistance as the problem.
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