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Malcolm Maps Negro
Malcotm X, the militant Black { tion
Nationalist leader who is urg-
ing Negroes to form rifle clubs
for their own defense, last night
told a cheering Harlem rally
that the “Ballot ts as powerful
as the bullet.”
Speaking before an Easter
night gathering or nearly 1,000
persons at the Audubon Ball-
room, 166th St. and Broachay,
the former top propagandist for
the Black Muslims promised a
assive voter Tegistration drive
monk the city’s Negro popula-
om
Malcolm said he had already
received assurances of coopera:
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from student groups
throughout the country to help
“map out” Harlem and see that
“every black face behind every
door” is registered to vote.
Predicting the most intensive
voter registration drive in Har-
lem'é history, Maicolm declared
that any Negro who desn't have
the “sense of responsibility to
get registered should be moved
out of town” ..
Though emphasizing political
action rather than violence,
there was no softening of the
tone of his remarks about the
white man—how he called at.
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ne point an “oatright devil)
ut his most bitter shafts we
served for the while liberaj,
who, he said, had been “kee
ing us barking up the wrong
direction.”
Malcolm said that the white
liberal, up to now, had" con -
trolled the civil rights struggle”
and had induced the Negro clvil
rights leaders to “settle for
crumbs.” His audience interject.
ed, “That’s right,” and stamped
their fect approvingly as Mal-
-colm, demanded “back pay”
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