American play
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X , March 26, 1964 – the only (momentary) meeting the two ever hadThe Meeting is a 1987 American play by Jeff Stetson about an imaginary meeting between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in 1965 in a hotel in Harlem during the height of the Civil Rights Movement .[1] [2] The play was later televised on American Playhouse in 1989.[3] [4]
The Meeting won a Louis B. Mayer Award and eight 1987 NAACP Theatre Awards.[1] It has been performed throughout Europe, the United States and in Nairobi.[1]
In reality, the two men only met once, while both were in Washington, D.C. to watch the Senate debates regarding the (eventual) passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 .[5] On March 26, 1964, they briefly spoke with each other as they walked through the United States Senate together for about a minute.[5]
The play was parodied by the sketch comedy show, Key and Peele , Peele playing King and Key playing Malcolm X.[6]
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