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Malcolm X — Part 33
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By By GEORGE ORGE CARMACK
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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
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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
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