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Malcolm X — Part 35
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Brock Peters, wife of the Ne-
gro acto¥T"Mrs. Betty Frank
Lomax, former wife of the
Saas eeeitese Tales Tame oes
ANT gg. Willi AMS LALLA,
- Miss Lincoln: the novelist
Paule Marshall, and a Man-
hattan lawyer, Florynce R.
Eennedy.
The group has established
an ofice at 8 E. 48th &t., to
receive public contributions to
help Malcolm's widow. The
members said they had sold
“over 1,000 tickets” to yester-
day's fete, and had received
quite unexpected help.
Schenley’s and Bambergers
Department Stores joined
smaller business groups and
Harlem peopgle in donating
equipment and refreshments
for boar-testfval,” said a com-
waitt+ae moar haw
bee LULL.
“We have almost no over-
head. And to make .
Shabazz gets all the receipts,”
she added, “we've temporarily
made her treasurer.”
Mrs. Marshall, whose books
“Brown Girl, Brownstones,”
and “Soul Clap Hands and
Sing" were published by Ran.
dom House and Atheneum,
emphasized that “we are
strictly non-political.”
But Mrs. Lomax snapped:
‘We'd like to see the white
American public show some of
the compassion for Mrs.
Shabazz that they showed In
donating £60,000 to Lee Har-
vey Oswald's widow.
“T personally don't consider
Malcolm guilty of anything
wrong. But nobody, even his
detractors, ca nequate him
with Oswald. Yet édacinaOs-
wald je zearad for”
Peau 1 Cmaies aul.
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