Contents description field reads: "John Lewis interview, in which he discusses his meetings with Malcolm X, his admiration for him and his disagreements with his separatist ideas. He also addresses the emotional impact of a SNCC trip to Africa to meet leaders of newly-independent nations. He talks about meeting Malcolm X in Nairobi, Kenya and his impression that Malcolm X was moving away from separatism. Lewis closes with a discussion of Malcolm X's funeral."

Contents description field reads: "John Lewis interview, talking about his memories of hearing about Malcolm X's death and his view that had he lived, there would have been "a greater marriage between the Martin Luther King wing of the movement and the Malcolm wing of the movement." He also discusses his support for continued white participation in SNCC, and his removal as SNCC chair and replacement by Stokely Carmichael. He mentions his decision to leave SNCC during the Meredith March, largely because of the Black Power slogan: "it was empty rhetoric." He closes with a discussion of his and SNCC's opposition to the Vietnam War."