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Malcolm X — Part 33

120 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Feb 1, 1964 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Malcolm X · 120 pages OCR'd
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- “ pic 0-19 (Rev, i2-14-64) A'ROAD OF LOVE' OR... - city. By By GEORGE ORGE CARMACK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer } SELMA, Ala, Feb. § — Two more than 300 Negroes — many routes to the right to vote have 4 been dramatically laid out to {¢r" the Negroes of this Alabama here yesterday: a route of violence. He told ‘of them high school students — crowded in an old brick church “The black people have the 1 Malcolm X has’ given the right to the ballot. I am 100 per j renter Or -té “Black Muslims — cent for their effort to get it — mere ne S i } vw | ae “ Al 00-37 LE 176 FEB 17 1965 ——— Y, . » of jie Tf a kEARCK - Fe FAW Malcolm X' X's Road" of Violence and by whatever means ls necessary.” The Rev. Fred L. Shuttleworth of Birmingham followed Malcolm X to the pulpit and laid out a route of non-violence —- what he called a “road of love."" He said that when he and Martin Luther King Jr. first started working for Negro rights, they took this pledge: “In our struggle to be free, we hold our affirm that not one halr on the head of one white man will be harmed.” Rev. Shuttleworth asked his Selma audience to take the same pledge, CRITICAL Malcolm X was critical of the United States — particularly its actions in the Congo, He accused the U.S. of instigating violence and said our nation “sent its planes to destroy people under the guise of af bre rescue mission.” “I don’t think America is going out of business — not for communism or anything else,” said Rev. Shuttleworth. “When I sing ‘My Country, ‘Tis ot Thee,’ - know it's my county. I thrill at seeing Old Glory flying in the ’ breeze, I consider it a privilege in a movement such as I know this is what Old na Telson Belmont Mohr DeLoach Casper. Callahan Conrad Feit Gale _; Rosen 4 Sullivan’ # Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes y Y, Times H@rald The Washint ton Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-Amertcan New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journg! The National Observer People's World Date Feg5 1965
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