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eT 9 ; fale at : ur t -« ae ran only, bd NY 105-8999 the MMI Rally A cece: — — = ee :: 166th Street, . New York City, MALCOLM X stated in his speech bhe ultibate goal of the MMI 1s to return all Negroes to Africa. Tae March 29, 1964 edition of the "Chicago Sunday Tribune", a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, contained an article on page 20 reflecting an interview with ° MALCOLM X in which he stated that the aims of his group are political, economic, and social, rather than religious. As such, he will work to bring equality for Negroes. | | The April 2, 1964 edition of "Jet" magazine, a weekly Negro magazine published in Chicago, Illinois, contained an rticle concerning MALCOLM X on page 54 in which he stated that. the main Negro problems are moral and mental. He stated that the vices our people are addicted to have destroyed the moral fibe:> of the Negro community. Therefore it is necessary to start working at the basis of that which is destroying the Negroes! morals and incentive and they are the vices which run rampant in the Negro community. He further expleined that the religion, of Islam gets to the root of these probiems. | eflected that in giving a policy statement o 8 on integration, MALCOLM X stated that his group “foes not stand for integration, but for complete freedom, justice, and equality, or recognition and respect as . human beings, He stated their objective is complete respect and the only difference among Negroes in this country is not in the objective, but 1n the method by which this objective should be reached. He stated that he was not preaching : integration, but that the MMI which has Islam as its religious philosophy has at the same time the political, economic and | social philosophy of black nationalism, Th{s neans that the | * - 368 -