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Malcolm X — Part 20
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to help the African people in their fight for freedom
and that this rally ‘was all for this". MALCOLM X,
however, stated that men should not turn the other cheek
but should fight for their rights and this. is what he
will do for the people in New York and Africa.
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An OAAU sponsored public meeting was held
on December 13, 1964, at New York City, attended by
about 500 people.
The featured speaker was OAAU Chairman and MMI
leader MALCOLM X. he devoted most of his speech to
the Congo situation claiming that the United States is
responsible for the situation there because of its
support for Congo Premier MOISE TSHOMBE, MALCOLM X
charged that it was the United States who was hiring
white mercenaries for TSHOMBE and these white mercenaries
described by MALCOLM X asp "hired killers" are the ones
who are killing innocent Africans.
MALCOLM X also spoke on Mississippi and
indicated that the struggie for independence by Africans
was synonymous with the struggle for freedom by Afro-
Americans in the United States. MALCOLM X also stated
that the Federal Bureau of Investigation cannot stop the
murders in Mississippi so "they" would have to take care
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do other than to remark in jest that he would pay a
reward of $1,000 to anyone who would "get" the sheriff
and his deputy who were recently released after being
arrested for killing three civil rights workers.
After giv his speech MALCOLM X introduced
Negro commedian DICKYGREGORY who joked for 40 minutes
chiefly coneerning
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