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G-19 (Rev, 12-14-64) ‘Ny REC: 10Y/ ofy_3 Meeting in Honors Malcolm X ' ‘NEW YORK — Civil rights mili- tants Fannie _Louw-Hamer ot Mis- sissippi ‘and ~ Gloria ardson XK Dandridge, formerly of Cambridge, ere among the featured speakers at the memorial meeting for Malcolm X held at the Rock- land Palace Ballroom here May 26. Malcolm's widow, Betty Shabazz, who is expecting Malcolm’s fifth child this summer, was present and greeted the audience of some $00 persons, Fannie Lou Hamer said Malcolm was “one of the greatest men I ever met because he was one of the only men I ever met who had the guts to tell the truth.” Gloria Richardson Dandridge, who led the famous Cambridge Nonviolent Action movement until she mar- ried and moved to New York last year, said that unlike those people who disliked some sides of Mal- colm “my admiration was for the whole man.” She liked the direc- tion in which Maicolm was mov- ing, she said, and for “White America with its elaborate myths it was a more dangerous Malcolm who was developing.” He was cut down, she said, when it only re mained for him to “fashion the political weapon oriented toward the black people and necessary for our freeddam.” Among @ other speakers who appeared re Harlein rent_strike leader Jessi Gray, Woinedian G iréy.Gambriy ghd actcr-producer ssle [Mavis The meeting was was cifaired By oy writer, en Ca Tet y LT 46 JUN 22 1965 =e aoe we 399321 -4 Tolson Belmont Mohr DeLoach Casper Cailahan Cantad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Heraid Tribune New York lournal-American —__uw New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World Date 6/7/65 THE MILITANT PAGE 8