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Malcolm X — Part 33

120 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Feb 1, 1964 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Malcolm X · 120 pages OCR'd
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> + ie | Nee ens be ls wee who have been working over the last decade for effective in- tegration, does not hate Mal- jcolm X. The leaders rather view jMalcolm as the brilliant spokes- pan for a philosophy radically different from their own—a phi- Josophy about as radical! as that {voiced by Southern White Citi- jzens’ Councils and the Ku Klux Elan. . Some members of the civil rights movement predicted that, a few Negro activists will use! Malcolm's proposals as a means of threatening whites. "It's the idea of using a man jlike this to frighten the people linko_gizing us what ave ‘eant.” one wellbrnoe we lseede- <<!7 «=<. ULE WEL AUA TE EGMED 3410 pris vately. “A lot of people are say- ing that we should let Malcolm scare the masses and Baldwin scare the intellectuals and Adam: , scare the politicians.” The refer-/ jences were to James Baldwin, jthe author, and Representative; ,Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Dem-! ocrat of Manhattan. ' Finds Strength Artificial | Another leader, Whitney M.! {Young Jr. of the National Ur-| (ban League, believes that Mal-' ‘colm’s strength is artificial—| jthat it is created on paper andj videotape by the press. “J think augreat deal of the visibility which Malcolm re- ceives from the media is due to an unconscious sympathy on the part of many reporters and oth: | ers whith the notion of separat: | ism,” he said. “Along comes a man like Mal- colrn, who says, ‘I don’t want to integrate your. neighborhoods, ,or your schools, or your daugh- ters, and I'm going to rehabili- tate your black criminals and cure your dope addicts and get the people. off welfare” There jare an awful lot of white people ‘who think thistis what we're looking for,"’ he went on. “They don't seem to be aware of the fact that Mussolini ana Hitler were able to build hos- pitals and roads and get peo- ple to goose-step, using hate as thaineistpod, Mr. Yeusgamaic. nd
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