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Malcolm X — Part 16
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“after the question and answer sesaion,
Malcolm X in turn welcomed the opportunity to
address the meeting and also comsended The Militant.
In his closing remarks he eaid,
= 'f want to thank the Militant Labor Forus
for the invitation to speak here this evening.
think as I said earlier, the paper is one of the best
I've read. We always encourage those in Harlem
to buy it whan we see it up there, or where ever
elee we mayg:see it. It's a very good paper and I
hope they acntinue to have success - make progress,
They can probably straighten out a lot of white people.
Let us straighten out the black people."
At a press conference held on 3/12/65,
in the Park Sheraton Hotel, NYC, MALCOLM X was asked
by an unknown newsman if his new organization would
accept financial support from a known Communist group.
MALCOLY X replied by telling a story in which he
indicated that if he were the prisoner of a wolf,-
he would accept release from captivity by any source.-
When the newspapermen present unanimously exclaimed
that this meant his answer was “yes" MALCOLM X denied
this and said, "I only told you a story about a wolf.*
“The Militant,” page “, dated &/29/64,
contained an article captioned, "Malcols X: Black
Revolution Part of World Wide Struggle," which
etated, “Rarely has the press gone further in
distorting and falsefying the views of a public .
figure than it has in the case of Malcolm X. So that
our readers may judge for themselves in an objective
way what Malcolm X really stands for, we are publishing
the text of the speech on "Black Revolution' that he
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