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Malcolm X — Part 11
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- C CONFIDC A sh
NATION OF ISLAM
both Minister Malcolm and Brother Minister George of Muhammad's
Mosque #20 expressed displeasure at the small crowd present
at this rally and expressed the opinion that the smail
attencance was due to tne rally neld by the National
t Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Philadelphia,
* Pennsylvania, on tae same night.
According to this souce, Minister Malcolm spoke
concerning the necessity for separation of the races, and
stated that the members of tae vlaca muslim group should
receive some land of their own, or else several states
should be given to the Muslim group in orcer that taey can
establish their own nation.
An article appearing in the "Courlier-Post", a
daily newspaper published in Camden, New Jersey, Page 17,
contained the following information in the issue of July 1,
1963, concerning the appearance of Malcolm Z in Camden, New
Jersey:
"Separation of Race Urged by Malcolm <
‘A leader of the Black Muslims called for the
immediate separation of the black man from white last
night before 599 persons at Convention Hall.
"Malcolm X, second in command and trouble shooter
for the Bleck Muslims sect, lashed out at the Federal
vernment, the NAACP, the Supreme Court and religion
in vis two hour speech.
"The Negro leader said tuat tae only solution
to the present racial problems is the complete separation
from white by either setting up independent territories or
retuxning to taeir homeland whica he dic not icentify.
“Wants Own States
"ae you don't want us to go home and since you
can't live with us, give us a separate territory of as many
states as we need,’ he said. ‘Ye think you shoule give
some of the silver and gold stored in Fort Knox and the
Philadelphia mint. It belongs as much te-us as the white
man because we have worked for nothing ali these years, '
Malcolm continued.
"¢f the Government gives us our land we'll till
the soil, dig clay for our own bricks, chop our own trees for
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