Columbia Univ. to Create Malcolm X Archive Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Tuesday February 20 08:27 PM EST Columbia To Create Malcolm X Index By BETH J. HARPAZ, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Columbia University and the daughters of Malcolm X announced a project Tuesday to archive the slain black activist's personal papers and create an electronic version of his autobiography. The project, to be completed over the next decade, will also include interviews with 200 of Malcolm X's relatives and contemporaries, a new biography and a collection of his speeches, essays and letters. The project was announced on the eve of the 36th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination. His wife, then pregnant with twin girls, and four daughters were present when Malcolm X was gunned down in Harlem. Manning Marable, director of Columbia's Institute for Research in African-American Studies, plans to use the new material to produce a biography of Malcolm X. Marable's book will fill in the blanks left by her father's memoir, Ilyasah Shabazz said. "The autobiography wasn't completed when my father was assassinated," she said. "His early life, his parents -- so many things are not in it." Marable, who has written 15 books on black history, said the archive will give scholars an opportunity to contemplate how Malcolm X's image has changed. "An entire generation of young African-Americans who were not born when Malcolm was assassinated find lessons from his life that inspire them toward new levels of personal excellence and achievement," he said. On the Net: Columbia's Institute for Research in African-American Studies: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/index. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytrc-02.20.01-23:35:03-1671