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“em - ‘<Lgusss by now F will say I love Betty,” Malcolm wrote laconically in 1964. By this time the family was living in o home at 23-11 97th st, in Elmhurst, Queens. Over the next several years Malcolm X's reputation spread as the Muslim movement betame known in America, By the early 1960s, rumors spread through Muslim circles of trouble between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad. Mal- colm declared in his autobiography that the trouble was : ENjah’s breaking of the Musiem ‘commandments. Haiis Kennedy’s Assassination Malcotm'’s account of what developed was that Tlijah was afraid of being denounced for his misdeeds, and &£o locked for an excuse to expell Malcolm. The chance came wher President Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, and Malcolm told a Manhattan Center rally of 7,000 persons that it was @ case of “chickens coming home to roost.” “Being an old farm bey myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad.” Por this, Elijah Muhammad suspended Malcolm X and atlas aed hie fou Of dacs) The hem ares moves Ufied bh BLENCEG Mill Tr BY Gays.” Le Da Wes GEver uted, OoW= ever, and Malcolm went his own way. He orlied a press cone ference to announce the creation of the Muslim Mosque, Inc, with headquarters in Harlem's Hotel Theresa. Then, Malcolm realized a dream of many years, He made ® Dilgrimage to Mecca, also visiting Cairo, Dakar, Ghana, Nigeria and other African nations. He returned home in. ‘triumph, overwhelmed with offers to speak all over the nation. He spoke at Harvard, Yale, Queens College and at many other schools. Message of Bulletsand Bleed On his own, Malcolm spread the message of blood ang violence. “The price of freedom is blood, and if blood frightens you, then freedom frightens you," was a typical comment. | He set down 1964 as « year of turmoll—bullets and blood. “There will be more violence than ever this year,” he proclaimed in March of 1964. “White people will be shocked when they discover that the passive little Negro they had ' known turns ont to be a roaring lion.” “If il’s necessary to form x Black Nationalist party— or & Black Nationalist army—we'll form ft,” he thundered. : “Ji's going to be a year of ballots or bullets. And if ballots won't wark, bullets will.” Again: “We should form rifis clube that can be aaed to - defend our lives and our preperty in tines of emergency ... When our people are bitten by dogs, they are within their rights to kill those dogs.” One of his last major statements cams tn October of last year when he denounced Elijah Muhammed as a “religious faker,” end officially broke with him. : Malcolm also rejected black racism as a doctrine, de- claring that he “recognized all men as brothsrs.” Thus, he wes Inoving inte the mainstream of liberalism in race rela- tions. “The well-meaning whites must become less vocal and more active against racism of their fellow whites ... and Nease-leadera must make their own peonle eee that with oorua] ge eee ee eS eee wee POUR EN Sek Gaotee Wisead San rights also go equal responsibilities.” 5