Michael X

MICHAEL X
 
 
Michael X  (born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago; 1933 – 16 May 1975) was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London.  He was also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik.  Convicted of murder in 1972, Michael X was executed by hanging in 1975 in Port of Spain’s Royal Jail.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Mick Farren settled in then-unfashionable Notting Hill with an early lady love, Joy Hebditch; they later married.  Like many in that era, Farren discovered the joys of marijuana and fell in with a radical crowd, including Scottish beat poet Alexander Trocchi and a black-power advocate named Michael de Freitas (who later took the name Michael X).  Mick Farren called the movement that he helped found the “Psychedelic Left”. 

 

(March 2014/1)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021