MICHAEL DE FREITAS
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”.
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