Mayor Sam Yorty, Los Angeles: This didn't come as a great surprise to us, the fact that they would resist our police officers and cause trouble because we have been watching this group for a long time and I think Chief Parker warned some time ago that we might have trouble with them. He was arrested the next year and sentenced to 10 years in prison. I didn't see the fiery— fire-breather. So I went forth to talk about Islam and how it is— my regular teaching. I never did tell you that we weren't going to lose anyone, but that's the way it is when you're building a nation. " In the end, Malcolm X was murdered for his outspoken and courageous beliefs. Ali added that after getting over his initial shock, he asked Malcolm X who was going to kill him and the outspoken Black leader was "in no doubt that it would be either the Nation of Islam or the FBI or both.
I'm going to give you a 99 as a human being and you stop eating pork, I'm going to give you 100. " Allah has blessed me to visit the holy city of Mecca where I witnessed pilgrims of all colors" — and "all colors" is underlined — "from all parts of this earth displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood like I've never seen before. When I call my husband Quincy a peeper, he gets upset and steps away from the roller blinds. And I attended meetings and was part of the security on occasion. He became a highly sought-after speaker on college campuses and on television. In the years that followed, the demands of his ministry allowed little time for his growing family. But the masses of black people in America today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down. Malcolm X: —during slavery. Malcolm X Charts His Own Path. Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much so that you don't want to be around each other?
He said, "I would turn him from my door and would never allow him in again. " His letters would later end up in FBI files. According to a first-hand report by UPI correspondent Scott Stanley, the barrage of shots continued "in what seemed like an eternity. It is a peep itself—never intentionally collected. John Henrik Clarke: I was in the home of a Jewish family, and they said very casually that, "Malcolm X has been assassinated. Ist Reporter: OK, give us the poetry on number seven. His preacher-ly roll call so familiar now, we worry for him when we don't hear it. "As long as I thought he genuinely believed that himself, I believed in him and believed in his solution. Once again, A. Phillip Randolph were there, Whitney Young was there, Dorothy Hieght was there. Gene Roberts: Malcolm came in and I escorted him from about the middle of the ballroom to the wings backstage. Sonia Sanchez: When I first saw Malcolm on a television, he scared me also. Now, they had come around to — they had planned to do it from the front and the back so that I couldn't get out.
As the Kerner Commission would point out in 1968, African Americans were justifiably skeptical of reporting on their communities by white reporters and white-run news media. Well, this atmosphere was explosive. What was he witness to that I could not see? —'cause I was a sick man, That right. Malcolm X: Well, primarily because they're afraid that I will tell the real reason that they've been — that I'm our of the Black Muslim movement, which I never told, I kept to myself. We are in bed talking like this, having one of our early-morning, half-awake chats, our breath still grimy with the burden of our dreams.
And my mother was holding Wesley, who was my youngest brother. You see, it's the medicine that has cured me of all my ills— Yes, sir, surely. He wanted to exercise the authority, and he did. I say, "I know of— I know about that. " Following a 22-month investigation, it was found that authorities withheld crucial information that would have kept the two men from being convicted. He'd say, 'Oops, my foot slipped, ' but you'd be just as dead. " To this day, the truth about his assassination remains unresolved. Malcolm X announced his split from the Nation of Islam on March 8, 1964. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of New York. In late 1945, after living in Harlem for a few years, Malcolm and four accomplices robbed the Boston homes of several wealthy white families. And today, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is showing black people in this country that just as the white man and every other person on this earth has god-given rights — natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of when it comes to defending himself — black people should have -- we should have the right to defend ourselves also. He's just a person that's tuned into life in such a way that he doesn't miss too much of it. Wilfred Little: I came into the Muslim movement in 1947 and then started bringing my brothers and sisters in. Malcolm Jarvis: Well, he had the reputation as being a hustler and he was a street person, but he wasn't a hustler.
He had his hair crockonoed, "conked, " you know. Philbert X: I didn't feel that I would have been a very good believer in Islam if I had just— because my own brother had left or whatever he had done, that I would leave. Fourteen Muslims were then ordered to stand trial on assault charges. Malcolm X: Yes, Go ahead, Brother. Four little girls were killed. When Reginald visited Malcolm in prison to convince him to jin NOI, Malcolm wondered how whites could be the devil if, for example, they gave him $1000 every time he used to smuggle drugs in a suitcase. And that excited the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I knew I was part of the indicted group, but he had a way of making you feel comfortable, feel as if you were talking man to man. Elijah Muhammad: I don't know — I don't have any knowledge of anyone trying to kill Malcolm. Peter Bailey: Here you're talking about bombing a church and killing four little girls, and the feeling of anger and not being able to do something or not do something was— I remember was tremendous.
Let me tell you something and I'll tell you why you say we hate white people. No one has lived more so in the society of whites than I. Wilfred Little, Eldest Brother: We was the only black children in the neighborhood, but on the back of our property, we had a wooded area, so the white kids would all come over to our house and they'd go back and play in the woods. But the traits that made him an icon — and his belief that Black people should secure their freedom and equality "by whatever means necessary" — also garnered him plenty of enemies, both Black and white. Malcolm X: [laughing] I considered myself Malcolm.
Almost immediately after he was rushed to the hospital, Malcolm X was dead. They run the schools. Narrator: When Malcolm appeared in court to challenge the eviction proceedings, he used the trial to reveal the private affairs of Elijah Muhammad. Peter Goldman: We were sitting across the street at the Shabazz Frosti Kreem and talking about race relations in America, and Malcolm at one point said, "OK, what's your solution? " Malcolm X: The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. William Defossett: I don't know what would have happened in Harlem that night, because the atmosphere— it was— I think the word they used is "charged. " We lived on the outskirts of Philly then, in a sleepy "Main Line" suburb. So that the final point that when you do those kinds of things all around the world, you set up a situation, an atmosphere, an environment in the world and sooner or later those chickens come home to roost.
She says, "If you go, you won't come back. Philbert Little: We were all at the house and we had dinner — supper together. Elijah Muhammad could stop the whole thing tomorrow just by raising his hand. How do you feel about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad?
Peter Bailey: My view of the Fruit of Islam was that these were the absolute baddest, cleanest brothers I had ever seen in my life. He didn't want anybody to exercise authority over his children. Narrator: In his effort to support a black united front, Malcolm accepted an invitation from SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, to speak in Selma, Alabama. He came to Detroit, h was surprised to find there were such few people in this powerful teaching in his mind. I didn't understand that. Mike Wallace: Are you not perhaps afraid of what might happen to you as a result of making these revelations?
10th Reporter: Do you consider yourself militant? And Malcolm didn't like that. He went out to the front of the station, on the first step, and just waved his hand, and the people walked away. Malcolm meant to lance that sense of inferiority. In his place, introducing Elijah Muhammad, was Malcolm's former protege, the minister from Boston, Louis X. Louis X, Nation of Islam: And I would meet the man that I had lived for and fought for and longed for all the days of my life. "Jolted awake by the explosions, he rushed his wife and four young daughters out into the cold before fire engulfed their modest brick house in East Elmhurst, Queens, " Swarns, Darcy Eveleigh and Damien Cave wrote in the newly published "Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives.
Gloria Richardson, Southern Civil Rights Leader: Most of the people that we were organizing had heard also of Malcolm and that— and respected him and listened to him. And yet, looking at the picture, I can't help but feel like Malcolm knew someone always had an eye on him—be it through a camera lens or past a curtain—and always would. They accepted the young champion into the Nation of Islam and announced his new name, Muhammad Ali, at their annual convention on Savior's Day. Kim Kardashian Doja Cat Iggy Azalea Anya Taylor-Joy Jamie Lee Curtis Natalie Portman Henry Cavill Millie Bobby Brown Tom Hiddleston Keanu Reeves.
Apologies again to his family. I say, "You can see things, but you don't want to see it, so you just blot it out in your mind. " I'm thankful for the legacy of authenticity Mr. Charles has left and will be forever inspired by his work and dedication to the communities he has served. Malcolm would later take New York City to court and win the largest police brutality settlement in the city's history. Book Notes: Journalists Follow Their Passions.
Malcolm also lost other relatives to violence, including an uncle he said was lynched. And I recall reading their language and I said to myself, "They're trying to get him killed. The metal had in fact become so old and rusted that tugging on the pull-string would cause the whole contraption to come down.