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iry and kill me” in February. He‘Says he talked the brothers of the special squad out of this idea, Perhaps _ by coincidence, Malcoim says he has borrowed a friend’s rifle to keep in his Elmhurst (Queens) home. He ‘astructed his wife in how to- use it “if anybody tries to some through that door, black, white, green or blue.” THIS use of rifles for “self-defeise” at the doors of their homes that Malcolm “armed... groes singing and praying, they to . says he & urging on Southern Negroes. Negroes in Northern cities, he implies, already are should get together and defend that Negro. If the faw doesn't do it, they should.” ~- , This doctrine, he said, “ac- tually Is am indictment of the government. The country was founded like that, out West. People banded together when | there was a breakdown in law enfarramanit Aa fer oc Wa SRICrCSnS ms i=: SS INS groes are concerned, law en- forcement has broken down.” As for Negroes in New A brilliant “talker” with a flashing smile and occasional wit, Malcolm took a card from his pocket and read Ar- ticle If of the “U.S. Constitu- tion's Bill of Rights: ‘ “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” He said he had consulted an attorney on this. He has no in- tention of carrying a gun or of urging any specific neigh- rf or person to bear arms. don't betieve in doing any- iging that is illegal,” he as- he said: “E don't have to tell Northern Negroes that, espe- cially these Negroes in New, York. “Harem isa jungle. The law of the jurigle is survival of the fittest. You don’t have to tell them what to do when it Tred. comes lo protecting them- He has said: “When our selves.” ‘ people are being bitten by BORN MALCOLM Little dogs, they are within their rights to kill those dogs.” But ne denied advocating carrying a gun for this purpose. This would break laws, he said. MALCOLM SAID South- ern Negroes should obtain rifles for protection if “the Klan or other racists come to the home of a Negro and want to take him out. “Instead of the other Ne- in Omaha, Neb., in 1925, he knows about survival from the inside. His father, a Baptist minister and follower of black nationalist Marcus Garvey, moved kis family to Lansing, Mich. Their house was burned down in 1931 by Ku Kiux Later his father was found killed by a streetcar. Malcolm believed he was lynched. One of II children, he was _ Sent to a boys’ institution ‘where be-made good grades - but was told his ambition of becoming a lawyer was unsuit- -able for a Negro. He traveled to New York iin 1941 and soon became a , Harlem teen-age gangster known as “Big Red” because of | his height and copper skin col- 1 or. Sent to prison in Concord, Mass., in 1947 for burglary, he was converted there to the teachings of Elijah Muham- mad and named Malcolm Xx. MALCOLM’S; talent for making news was shown in his | I suggestion that the crash of a ; Planeload of Atlanta (Ga) civ- + 1 jc leaders was “divine retribu- , tion,” and his remark that President John F. Kennedy's - gsasiingtion was 1 ceraing home _to roost. “chickens ° ee | media-created,” York, Chicago and elsewhere, |: poll that Klansmen. Malcolm says. 4 | level,” he said. . * This gemark, later_dituted | by him as being a reference to the ‘“climate of hate,” re- sulted in his suspension and - ouster as New York leader of . the Biack Muslims. Negro rights leaders in the ' established organizations such | as the National Assn. for the | Advancement of Colored People scorn him. “He is: one NAACP = qqermmengy ** cial said, official cited a recent showed | “Wfatf-—tHte Negroes in America never heard of the Black Muslims, “Before (television interviewer}. Mike Wallace and (writer) Louis Lomax discovered Mal- colm, it was 75 per cent,” he commended. t Malcolm parried this attack’ by suggesting that “rhe Rev.. Martin Luther King is about’ the only Negro leader who could walk through Harlem and be tecognized. ” F MALCOM IS less than spe- . cific about his immediat. plans. © He addressed an overflow audience at Harvard this week, | backed the New Yor! school fjott (“I am against segre- - gatijja; they are against sig- Tegglion. But J am also agaisst integration”) and met wyjth other Young Turk. rebels of the Negro reval: Sunday in Chester, Pa. L ; This weekend he plans a “mass rally” in a Harlem hall that hoids 2,000. He wili pass” the hat for donations. By aext summer he hopes to put to-, gether “a united front for” political actioa with every" group in Harlem.” “We will unite and see ‘thaty the politicians are made aware | that we can remove them if’ they don’t remove this oppres- ' sive condition, at the city level, | the state level, the national | “Integration is a pipe dream. - Jt “is impractical. It! makes hypocrites out of white ‘ : people. hey are fop_it for, somebody. else, not themselves. Fi BAT et seems ed “ te at ~* + yw