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me ee et ete te (3 CONAIDENTIAL ga Ore STATES DEPARTMENT OF TICE ¥ FEDERAL BUREAU Of INVESTIGATION September 9, 1966 sypesienlad A source, who has furnished reliable. information jin the past, advised on August 25, 1966, that on August 17, 1966, Stokely Carmichael, national "leader of the Student Non- Violent Coordinatin Committee (sNcc), was scheduled:-to hold a press conference in -fron of -the New England Grass Roots Organization, a local civil rights organization, at 366 Blue Hill Avenue in the Roxbury section ef Boston, Massachusetts. The conference was scheduled for 2:Ct p.m. Carmichael was delayed due to the strike of airlines employees and the conference was canceled. NATION OF ISLAM He had also been scheduled to appear at a panel discussion togethe with Louis X Walcott at 8:00 p.m., on August 17, 1966, at the Fatr Campbell Junior High School,. Lawrence Avenue, Roxbury. Louis % Walcott is the minister of a Muslim temple in New York City and is the East Coast representative of Elijah Muhammad, national leaser of the Nation of Islam. A characterization of the Naticr: cf Islam appears in the appendix of this memorandum. Minister Louis X did appear and spoke before an audience estimated a@1,000 persons. There was standing room only. His theme was Unity for the Black Man. He claimed the whit man's strategy is to keep the Negro divided and therefore the black man must have all his leaders pull together and agree cn which way the black man is headed. , He discussed the Muslim theory on the black man being the or vzii man and the white man resulting from a graft from the blacx man. He claimed the white man's nature is so savage he di¢ not knov how to give anyone justice. He spoke of the unrest in (he woric and how all the black, brown and yellow nations were going te rise up against the black man. nal Boston, Massachusetts es