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Malcolm X — Part 21
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Organization of Afro-American Unity
Internal Security - Miscellaneous
The meeting was opened by MMI Executive
Secretary James 67X Warden, who then introduced OAAU chairman
and MMI leader Malcoim X Little as the featured speaker.
Malcolm X spoke on the subject of “Rallots or Bullets".
According to {MD via.coim x made the
following remarks:
Malcolm X spoke at length on the civil rights
movement in the United States. He outlined the history of the
rignts struggle by stating that promises were made to the
Mepro in 1963 and all "we" got was the murder of National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
leader Medgar Evers and of President John F. Kennedy. In
196% more promises were made to the Negro and all "we" got
was the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi
and of a Negro educator in Georgia.
Malcolm X stated that so far in 1965 the Mississippi
Freedom Democrat Party has been rebuffed in’their effort to
unseat the illegally elected United States Congressmen from
Mississippi and Negroes are being denied their right to
recister to vote in Alabama. Malcolm X stated that unless
something is done for Negro voter registration "we" must
take “drastic steps", and he predicted the "longest, hottest,
bloodiest summer ever", He further stated that the Negro -.
youth of today will not submit to these wrongs but will "take
action", and he claimed that the present mood of the Negro
is away from non-violence.
ae <<: that Malcolm X was
extremely carefru e tne above remarks and made
absolutely no mention of possible future vidence in the civil
rizhts field by himself or anyone else, nor did he encourage
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