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— a : Ps hes Re eal ont “ bees 0-19 (Mev. 12-14-64) BIC aoe Death, Not By His Own hci Preached | Hatred Of the 'White Devil’ By DONALD R. FLYNN and STANLEY ROBERTS rnal-Anmerican Staff Writers Malcolm Little of Omaha, Neb., who became Mal- colm X of the world, knew he would one day be killed violently, and accepted this fate as the price of lead- ing Negroes against the “white devils.” He sounded like a man courting martyrdom, and found it Ironically enough in Harlem, the Negro capital of America, delivered by his own kind. “I know that any day, any night, I could die at the hands of some white devil racists,” he wrote in his mem- alrs, “The Autobiography of, Malcolm X.” “T dream thai one day history will look upen me as hav- ing been one of the voices that perhaps helped to save America from a grave, even posibly fatal catastrophe,” That might be what Malcolm X meant to be his epitaph. What ihe world wil! really think of him cannot yet be told. The fact that he will be remembered at all is remarkable, considering his background and the road he was once traveling. Bs mf Rw. J W. Fa ..L.- sts oT vEenG nd as Speaker From a “zoote suiter," a cocaine addict and a jailbird, he Tose to become a leading spokesman for “separatism,” the creation af a separate nation for American Negroes. From an ignorant “hipster,” he transformed himself 4nto an articulate leader, and was able to boast that he was the second most sought after speaker in the United States. Barry Goldwater was first at that time. He often said he became a racist from the womb, be- eause his grandmother’ was raped by a white man. That was how he got his red hair and light complexion that he prided himself on as a youth but came everitually to hate as @ stain. “I hate every drop of that white rapist's blood dat is in me,” he declared. He was born in Omaha on May 19, 1925, the son of the Rey. and Mrs. Ear! Little. The Rev. Little was a follower of Marcus Garvey, who preached a “Back to Africa’ message to Negroes. And thus, Ku Klux Klan riders smashed the Little home and forced them to move to Lansing. Mich. There, the Littie home was burned down by racists, Malcolm wrote. The Rev. Little died in 1831, bludgeoned and thrown un- d-z 2 street car, according to Malcolm. These shocks, and the desertion of a common-law husband after that, eventually broke the mind and «pirit of Mrs. Little, Mal related, - and the-beatbeen in a state mental hospital since the early 1930s. . m “9 t. é Qs bur E MALCOLM X SAURDER: Fynectad Telson pment aa Callahan — Conrad Felt Gale Rose Sulliv Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy os be pic eof, "Like a Pink Poodle’ Malcolm attended Mason High Schoo! in Lansing, got good grades and was stunned as the only Negro in the achoc] to be eleoted class president. “I was unique in my class, Hike = pink poodle,” he ob- served ‘ster. Fate sent him to live with a sister in Boston's Roxbury section, the Harlem of the Hub City, and into a life of a shoe shine boy in a dance hall. He soon learned that the real Job was selling marijuana -clgarets. Malcolm took if up himself, and moved into the “eaol world,” . A job on the Yankee Clipper train between Boston and York brought him finally te “The Rig Apple” and dis Mite ei fitieiy i arg fap pe The Washin Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American 4 New York Daily News New York Fost The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Date IVF Eal- A FEB 2 TRS NOT P@GORDED, 176 MAR 9 1985 3 1963 ee ee —a