marable had died when?guest: sadly unexpectedly passed in april 1st, 2011 the book was released april 4th. he was someone who was a scholar and activist rich and overt 20 books over the criminal-justice system and hurricane katrina and in the aftermath and president obama and doing all of his academic and intellectual projects and social justice intervention and was very excited hoping the book would reignite interest in malcolm x and what he represents so of these ideas that the idea he was so committed to an end hoping the conversations around the book would cause people to reexamine the case and circumstances with the assassination. >> this was an opportunity to be having important conversations around a life and legacy of malcolm xt71 of the critiques of the book is dr. marable made assumptions about malcolm x life. >> what they thought to do was give a comprehensive for sinn as was available based on the sources consulted. as a research -- researcher he would not base anything he wrote, i he tried to m

marable. eve [applause] >> it is wonderful to be here this evening. i'm going to read very briefly three short excerpts from the autobiography of medger evers that captures different aspects of what the book covers.f thloe autobiography of the medger evers was a labor of love the cut is medger eversas was more than simply a pioneer for the blackbl freedom of struggle but in deed a central figure in america who has yet to be fully recognized for the giant that he was. this evening i would like to speak for about 20 minutes following with their own personal reflectionug following on thegl experiences and the struggle for civil rights going side-by-side and with american history then we can entertain questions and your comments. the true origins of medger evers political life can beve traced back actually at 1832 when the mississippi state constitutional convention was held and adopted the principle of universal whitete manhood suffrage eliminating all property qualifications on the voting franchise so those who were obviously were not permitted to vote