Six people built something extraordinary in America, and America answered by taking the country away from them: Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Frantz Fanon, Claudia Jones, Muhammad Ali. The passport, the title, the citizenship, the hospital room, the file.Robeson was the most famous Black man on earth in 1949. Five years later he could not leave the country, and his name had been cut out of the All-American football rosters he earned in 1917 and 1918. Baldwin left for Paris with forty dollars and came home to a 1,884-page FBI file. Claudia Jones wrote one essay about Black women workers, landed on J. Edgar Hoover's custodial detention list, and was deported to a country she had never seen. Ali gave up three and a half prime years, his heavyweight title and his passport, and won 8-0 at the Supreme Court.Fanon's is the file that never opened. He reached Washington in October 1961 for leukaemia treatment under an alias, waited ten days in a hotel while his admission was renewed one day at a time, and died in an NIH ward whose visitor log the CIA was reading. Lumumba's assassination records came out in the 1990s. Fanon's are still sealed, and the answer to a request for them is that the agency can neither confirm nor deny they exist.Two hours, one cut. A compilation of our own published episodes, re-edited with a new opening and chapter cards.Black History Declassified investigates the specific mechanisms, documents, and people behind the persecution of Black Americans who built extraordinary things.blackhistorydeclassified.comCHAPTERS0:00 Six Americans Their Own Country Tried To Erase0:13 Malcolm X Leaves Charlestown State Prison, 19534:35 Boston, 1946: Detroit Red And The Burglary Ring8:19 Reginald Little Brings The Nation Of Islam Into The Cell10:04 He Copies The Entire Dictionary By Hand14:55 Minister Of Temple Number Seven, Harlem19:55 One Man At The Top: All The FBI Needed21:40 The Audubon Ballroom, February 21, 196524:57 Huey P. Newton And Bobby Seale Read The Lesson29:15 James Baldwin Sails For Paris With Forty Dollars33:53 Eight Days In A Paris Jail Over A Stolen Bedsheet35:53 Go Tell It On The Mountain, 195340:09 The Fire Next Time And The Cover Of Time, 196341:17 Robert F. Kennedy's Apartment, May 24, 196343:55 The FBI File That Reached 1,884 Pages45:06 Cambridge Union, 1965: Baldwin Versus Buckley47:06 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, December 1, 198749:14 Paris, April 20, 1949: The Speech That Ended Robeson50:49 Rutgers On A Scholarship, Two-Time All-American55:47 HUAC Calls Jackie Robinson, July 18, 194957:16 Peekskill, New York, Two Weeks After Paris58:37 The State Department Takes His Passport, 195059:22 HUAC, June 1956: You Are The Un-Americans1:00:07 Struck From The All-American Rosters Of 1917 And 19181:01:36 Philadelphia, January 23, 19761:03:58 Frantz Fanon Lands In Washington, October 3, 19611:04:37 The Memo: A Node For Black Extremists1:10:34 The CIA Officer At The Bedside, In His Own 2019 Words1:12:56 Ten Days In The Dupont Circle Hotel1:16:12 Ward 12B At The NIH Clinical Center1:17:22 Holden Roberto Signs The Visitor Log, October 19611:21:36 December 6, 1961: Time Of Death1:23:12 Lumumba's Files Opened, Fanon's Still Sealed1:28:11 Claudia Jones Burns Every Paper She Owns, 19551:29:44 Super-Exploitation: The 1949 Essay1:33:26 The Scottsboro Nine And The Only Party That Came1:34:31 Hoover's Custodial Detention List, 19431:36:26 Arrested Under The Smith Act, June 19511:36:59 Guilty, January 1953, For An Essay About Peace1:38:52 Trinidad Refuses Her. England Takes Her.1:40:28 FBI Agents Follow Her Onto The Queen Elizabeth1:42:38 The Notting Hill Riots, August 19581:43:14 St Pancras Town Hall, 1959: The First Carnival1:48:13 Cassius Clay's Louisville: Whites-Only Signs1:49:50 The Stolen Red Schwinn And Officer Joe Martin1:51:03 Rome, September 5, 1960: Olympic Gold1:52:27 The Nation Of Islam, Guided By Malcolm X
