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% 2 . s + if ae tae + 0-19 (Rev. 5-27-63) Victim K.io' ene ee “As Articulate ee Toa daw Negro Leader (3) In 1952'he joined the Black| Muslims, the unofficial name | of the organization ‘known | Tolson Belmont Mohr Casper Callakan Conrad DeLoach Evans Gale Dp \ Woon ——_. formally as -the Nation of ullivan 4 _ islam. Then, like all practicing Tavel Gero members e cult, he sub- ; Wasiington ee att wer stituted X for his last name, Trotter to symbolize the last name Tele Room Malcolm X{ shot to deeth inyhis ideas did not change and) his ‘ancestors lost _w hen Holmes a ote] yesterday,j/he continued his work as @/ brought here from Africa as } ranked high on the list of the|/Black Nationalist evangelist] slaves, Gandy Nation's Negro leaders. with unremitting vigor. — The 38yearcld Black Na-| His attitude toward the Ne- tionalist leader was known 4s) ero movement is perhaps best an afticulate, able and dynam-|summarized in a 1960 com- ic orator who broke away from|ment quoted by Wallace ‘the Black Muslin cult last|Terry, then a staff writer for March 8 to form his own|The Washington Post: ; group, The Muslim Mosque,) “We want to get behind inc. leaders who will] fight for us, He also practiced the stringent moral code of the ; Black Muslims and gradually became the’spokesman and in effect the number two man for Black Muslim leader Elija Muhammad, Malcolm X also became the heir-apparent to the spiritual A short time later, he also|Malcolm said, “. .. leaders who} leader of the Black Muslims, set ee “an Afro-American or-|are not afraid to demand free-J but it is believed that he lost ganization saying that “the|dom, justice and equality. We] out in a power struggle to main emphasis of the new|do not want leaders who are movement will be black na-|handpicked for us by the white guarantee his succession to Elijah who for some time has. noven . ire] been in i) health. | tionalism as a political con-|man. We don't want any more} > : ‘ Tom's.” ‘Then, 14 months ago, the| cept and form of social action Dnele 7s ms feud exploded. Ironically, it! ae omee etconized as the : j was touched off by Malcolm chief spokesman for the anti- tation OT Pn ia the. vanedy. white Black Muslim group, ' which he chara teri ed. as a Malcolm X rejected the or-|- i instance of “the chick ns ¢ m ganizaffon saying that “for 12/¥ ens cone long years I lived within the|' narrow-minded confines of the ‘strait-jacket world” of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Black Muslim cult. Maleolm X was born in Omaha, Neb, one of 10|5 children of the Rev. and Mrs. |f Earl Little. His father was|'! active in the back-to-Africa movement of black national- one i i 4 Speaking in Ney York, Mal- ;colm X said that “being an i old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never :did make me sad; they've al- l-ways made me glad.” .- |< A week Ister Shieh 4.,.! aurea, SER hae: | ing home to roost.” ,manded Maleolm X for the remarks and suspended him indefinitely from the Black The Washington Dally News A i# ‘fammad publliely repri. The Washington Post and fi Times Herald ay Varietal ds moved j : Muslims. “We, with the world, The Evening Star with his family to ansing, dre very shocked at the as- New York Herald Tribune Mich., where they lived in a previously all-white neighbor- hood. Within three years, |} Maleolm later said, the home|! was burned to the ground! and his father was found|. mt ae bludgeoned to death under «@ oNe ree away from home AY Le 3 9734 / A the age of 11 and ended up in Boston at the home of a | wae jeassination of our president,” said Elijah Muhammad. New York Journal-Ametican ‘Later, when rejecting the New York Mirror Black Muslims, Malcolm X New York Dally News wrote to a New York friend from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Ne York Post Meat ST whall won wet wea! did to so many well-meaning 3 S04 GEVET Fest wot] | The New York Times . Lave undone the harm I The Worker mma Negroes who through my own The New Leader - NOT RYCORDED = evangelistic zeal now believe | The wal! Street Journal in (Elijah Muhammad) even} the Nationa! Observer hore fanatically and more Peopie’s World Aslindly than I did”: a : But although Malcolm x| vate FER O0 ‘C55 ‘split from—the-Biack Muslims, half-sister. At 15 he was living in Harlem, but by 1045 was (76 FEB 26 1965 back in Boston where he was? arrested, convicted of bur- en eee glary and was sentenced_to 8 t 1D years in the Cberles-} town State Prison, where he ee Me served 77 months before) ' being paroled, vee ‘ # COMARL ies | ©