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A set of 16 postcards sent by Malcolm X are to be auctioned this week by Nate D Sanders. They were sent in 1957, 1958 and 1964 to Gloria Owens, who was the secretary at Muhammad’s Temples of Islam where he was a minister alongside Louis Farrakhan. The cards are an intimate look at the perspective of one of the most famous African American civil rights activists
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  • Sent from Florida 1958. All photographs courtesy of Nate D Sanders Auctions
    Sent from Florida 1958

  • Sent from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in April 1964
    Sent from Mecca, Saudi Arabia

  • Sent from New York, 22 October 1958
    Sent from New York 1958

  • Sent from Egypt when attending the African Summit Conference in Cairo
    Sent from Egypt

  • Sent 10 June 1958 from Oklahoma when he was touring the US speaking against police brutality
    Sent from Oklahoma 1958

  • Sent from Nigeria in 1964 featuring the president of Nigeria, Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
    Sent from Nigeria

  • Sent from Kenya in October 1964
    Sent from Kenya

  • Sent from the UK in December 1964 when he was debating at Oxford University
    Sent from Oxford, UK 1964
  • Sent from Kuwait in December 1964
    Sent from Kuwait

  • Sent from Ethiopia, most likely in 1964 when he was visiting other African countries
    Sent from Ethiopia

  • Sent 19 May 1964 from Casablanca, Morocco, and is a rare example of a document signed with his full Muslim name: el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz
    sent from casablanca