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Malcolm X — Part 19
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APPENDIX
MUSLIM MOSQUE, INCORPORATED
The March 13, 1964, edition of "The New York Tines,"
a | daily newspape:s puzlisaad in New York, New York, contained
an article on paye 20 which indicated that MALCOLM X (LITTLE),
former national official of the Nation. of Islam (NOI) and
Minister of NOI Mosque #7, New York, who broke with the MOI on
March 8, 1954, publici¢ announced in New York City on March 13,
1964, that he had forced the huslim Mosque, Incorporated (MMI).
The aT, according tu tis article, would be a broadly based
politically oriented black nationalist movement for Negroes
only, financed by voluntary contributions, In this public
statement, MALCOLM X urged Negroes to abandon the doctrine of
non-violence when it is necéssary to defend themselves in the
civil rights struggie, and he also suggested that Negroes form
rifle clubs to protect their lives and property in times of
emergencies in areas where the government is unable or unwilling
to protect then.
Incorporaticr papers of the MMI filed on March 16,
1964, with the Business Section, Clerk of Courts, New York
County, New York, New York, reflect that the MMI was
incorporated under the Religious Corporation Law of the State of
New York to work for the imparting of the Islamic Faith and
Islamic FPaldgion in accordance with “accepted Islamic
principals." Ths princ:pel place of worship to be located in
ithe Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York,
During an appcararce over KYW-Television, Cleveland,
Ohio, on April 7, 1964, EAJSCOLM ZX stated that the MMI does not.
stand for integration, but for complete freedom justice and .
equality for Negroes. Hs stated that Islam was the religious
philosophy of the MMI, while the political, economic, and social °
philosophy was blac« nationalisr, ,
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