Student Today / Malcolm Burnley

Malcolm Burnley, 22, stands with a copy of the 1961 edition of the "Brown University Herald" in the John Hay Library in Providence on Feb. 3

The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America’s top diplomats.
The audiotape of Malcolm X’s 1961 address in Providence might never have surfaced at all if 22-year-old Brown University student Malcolm Burnley hadn’t stumbled across a reference to it in an old student newspaper. He found the recording of the little-remembered visit gathering dust in the university archives.
“No one had listened to this in 50 years,” Mr. Burnley said. “There aren’t many recordings of him before 1962. And this is a unique speech – it’s not like others he had given before.”
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