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Malcolm X — Part 34

102 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Malcolm X · 100 pages OCR'd
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Gale jof Amsterdam Avenue three] and’ was addressed to El-Haf} Murdered Leader ofCult 's] ours eartier as many tried to| Malik.” El-Haij is the prefix Rosen Eulogized as Beféver in | ture themselves seats inside.) five, to any Reeser wee Mal Sullavan Brotherhood ff Man | ola inborer weaving 's tecpora CRUE amie name, Trott i rer wearing @ leopard Theree was little cryiné aloud Trotter . . vn pillbox hat, said: “I knew | and. almost no sobbing through. Tele Room as a wonderful man, a! ot. the se ces, Wl asted POLICE GUA HEAVY| great man, « prince of peace, aj Slxhtly more than hour. Rather, Holmes aa nobleman, I just want to be| ing a determined effort to show Gandy ——__ here. ‘ ; no emotion whatever—an effort | There were about 15 white! thatt was shattered occasional- i f/eo- 3 The service was started b Ror RB ' admirers of the slain man, At 9:20 the doors of the r. Davig_andwhis wife, Ru OORDED Des, the actress, reading mi 8 By MARTIN ARNOLD Malcolm X black national- ist who had told Negroes they! lence, went to his grave yes-| terday eulogized as a man who! died believing in the brother- hood of man. Several thousand people jammed the sidewalks in the hitter cold and about 600 packed the Christlan church where the Moslem services! were held had been instances and threats of violence after Malcolm was murdered last Sunday, but there was no violence at the services| in Harlem or at the graveside, in Hartsdale Ossie Davis, the Negro actor and playwright, who delivered | the eulogy, said: “Malcolm was our manhood, our living biack manhood, In honoring him we honor the best in ourselves.” Crowds Line Sidewalk The funeral service took place at Faith Temple, Church of God in Christ, at 147th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. . church were opened, and the mourners filed past police guards and husky, dark-suited followers of Malcolm, 20° of whom servedflas ushers at the service. Large urses and hand-| bags -carried women were searched by the police. _ The body of Malcolm X had] been taken to the church in aj hearse at 1:35 A.M yesterday— escorted by a dozen police cars —from the United Fumerai Home at Eighth Avenue and 126th Street. A total of 22,000 persons had viewed it there platform, draped in dark red| veivet, in front of the altar. It was opened, and the first few mourners who got into the church later in the morning’ were able to view Malcoim's body in a white burial sheet, through a glass lid. | Symbols of Christishity as the On the altar, ev Moslem funeral taking place, th remained the bronze symbgis of a tian church, tithe box, the candelabra, but they were hid- den from the mourners by th coffin lid. : ; ot To the rear of the altar, 50 newspaper reporters and photo- graphers and television camera- men were jammed beneath two side murais depic ce was scenes in ea | movie theater and placed on | ihe United States, who had said 1 sages of condolence. They came from the African-:- Pakistan-West Indian of.the London School of Eco- nomics, the Freedom Fighters of Ohio, Inc., which called Mal- colm the “most misinterpreted, misundersteod man in Amer- icay’’ the Michigan Committee for. Freedom Now. Party; the Las Angeles N.A.A.C.P. Youth Group;, the government of Ghana, and the Pan-African Congress of Southern Africa, which haled Malcolm as “anti- imperalist, anti-colonist and anti-racist.” Speaker Is Applauded Hundreds af policemen stood|ll sigce Tuesday. - ; (@ Then Omar Osman, of the * guard during the services. There; wrt bronze the fin eta Islam Center of Switzerland and he was one of Malcolm's teach- ers, told the mourners: “We Knew brother Malcolm as & blood brother, particularly after his pilgrimage to Mecca last ear.” “The highest thing that a Maslem can aspire to is t o die on the battletield and not die at hs bedside,” he said to loud ap- Plause, “Those who de on the battle- field are not dead, but are alive. shouts of “right,” “right” from the mourners. : Society | | 4¥ b The Washington Daily News The Washington Post and Times Herald The Evening Star » New York Herald Tribune There was more applause and New York Journal-Amer ican New York Mirror While the rite was proceed- New York Daily News ing inside, the crowd continued to' grow outside. “I can’t see New York Post any of this,” said a woman iN phe New York Times a black coat. She was standing on the west side of Amsterdam The Worker Avenue, Her view blocked bY +. New Leader barri ta as Christ. stood| ' severa] large trucks fram the TT : Ine proceasion of friends and: on chairs to get a better view|, National Broadcasting Com- The wall Street Journal x. y rere . ie . wee a | pany. Loe ae . ; "Tulasi uh Lip tue tale te enor of the see was Ughted by | Dine ‘car, parked in front og The National Observer an potesed agninst eight ceiling fixtures, each one the truck, the window panes cf the red brick and wooden ‘tenements across the street, or stood shiy- resembling a mosque, which had been there since it was a movie house. Around the cottin stood eight eral steel helmets, an a Ne- woman asked the driver, Jaughing, “You getting ready also belonged to a People's World ——____-,_—_ wae kh eer a a er f hep et : television network. Inside, were. 1. ering on their Pes | _suntformed policemen, and tothe) for next sumi ada “ side were two uniformed po-|} A” white girl in her mie! 2) E + I On ; licewomen, Alt were Ni |" twenties, speaking with a Brit- “/+ ad 3 COMAR 9 1908 Serres wees] ROSY SMR gQ- S 4 A " , ti , a s wo. SS eere police atom remarkably fascinating man. / .a Negro police plainclothesman! 2 That’s why. I'm oT ial
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