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Malcolm X — Part 34
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a | gtart at 8:30 AM, but lines| CTescent of Islam embossed on) Evans
te ‘began forming on the side tm white Carn ttOnS. a ! Gale
jof Amsterdam Avenue three] and’ was addressed to El-Haf}
Murdered Leader ofCult 's] ours eartier as many tried to| Malik.” El-Haij is the prefix Rosen
Eulogized as Beféver in | ture themselves seats inside.) five, to any Reeser wee Mal Sullavan
Brotherhood ff Man | ola inborer weaving 's tecpora CRUE amie name, Trott
i rer wearing @ leopard Theree was little cryiné aloud Trotter
. . vn pillbox hat, said: “I knew | and. almost no sobbing through. Tele Room
as a wonderful man, a! ot. the se ces, Wl asted
POLICE GUA HEAVY| great man, « prince of peace, aj Slxhtly more than hour. Rather, Holmes
aa nobleman, I just want to be| ing a determined effort to show Gandy ——__
here. ‘ ; no emotion whatever—an effort |
There were about 15 white! thatt was shattered occasional- i f/eo- 3
The service was started b Ror RB
' admirers of the slain man,
At 9:20 the doors of the r. Davig_andwhis wife, Ru
OORDED
Des, the actress, reading mi 8
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Malcolm X black national-
ist who had told Negroes they!
lence, went to his grave yes-|
terday eulogized as a man who!
died believing in the brother-
hood of man.
Several thousand people
jammed the sidewalks in the
hitter cold and about 600
packed the Christlan church
where the Moslem services!
were held
had been instances and threats
of violence after Malcolm was
murdered last Sunday, but there
was no violence at the services|
in Harlem or at the graveside,
in Hartsdale
Ossie Davis, the Negro actor
and playwright, who delivered |
the eulogy, said: “Malcolm was
our manhood, our living biack
manhood, In honoring him we
honor the best in ourselves.”
Crowds Line Sidewalk
The funeral service took place
at Faith Temple, Church of God
in Christ, at 147th Street and
Amsterdam Avenue. .
church were opened, and the
mourners filed past police
guards and husky, dark-suited
followers of Malcolm, 20° of
whom servedflas ushers at the
service. Large urses and hand-|
bags -carried women were
searched by the police. _
The body of Malcolm X had]
been taken to the church in aj
hearse at 1:35 A.M yesterday—
escorted by a dozen police cars
—from the United Fumerai
Home at Eighth Avenue and
126th Street. A total of 22,000
persons had viewed it there
platform, draped in dark red|
veivet, in front of the altar.
It was opened, and the first few
mourners who got into the
church later in the morning’
were able to view Malcoim's
body in a white burial sheet,
through a glass lid. |
Symbols of Christishity
as the
On the altar, ev
Moslem funeral
taking place, th remained
the bronze symbgis of a
tian church, tithe box, the
candelabra, but they were hid-
den from the mourners by th
coffin lid. : ; ot
To the rear of the altar, 50
newspaper reporters and photo-
graphers and television camera-
men were jammed beneath two
side murais depic
ce was
scenes in
ea |
movie theater and placed on | ihe United States, who had said
1
sages of condolence.
They came from the African-:-
Pakistan-West Indian
of.the London School of Eco-
nomics, the Freedom Fighters
of Ohio, Inc., which called Mal-
colm the “most misinterpreted,
misundersteod man in Amer-
icay’’ the Michigan Committee
for. Freedom Now. Party; the
Las Angeles N.A.A.C.P. Youth
Group;, the government of
Ghana, and the Pan-African
Congress of Southern Africa,
which haled Malcolm as “anti-
imperalist, anti-colonist and
anti-racist.”
Speaker Is Applauded
Hundreds af policemen stood|ll sigce Tuesday. - ; (@ Then Omar Osman, of the
* guard during the services. There; wrt bronze the fin eta Islam Center of Switzerland and
he was one of Malcolm's teach-
ers, told the mourners: “We
Knew brother Malcolm as &
blood brother, particularly after
his pilgrimage to Mecca last
ear.”
“The highest thing that a
Maslem can aspire to is t o die
on the battletield and not die at
hs bedside,” he said to loud ap-
Plause,
“Those who de on the battle-
field are not dead, but are alive.
shouts of “right,” “right” from
the mourners. :
Society
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The Washington Daily News
The Washington Post and
Times Herald
The Evening Star
» New York Herald Tribune
There was more applause and New York Journal-Amer
ican
New York Mirror
While the rite was proceed- New York Daily News
ing inside, the crowd continued
to' grow outside. “I can’t see New York Post
any of this,” said a woman iN phe New York Times
a black coat. She was standing
on the west side of Amsterdam The Worker
Avenue, Her view blocked bY +. New Leader
barri ta as Christ. stood| ' severa] large trucks fram the TT
: Ine proceasion of friends and: on chairs to get a better view|, National Broadcasting Com- The wall Street Journal
x. y rere . ie . wee a | pany. Loe ae . ;
"Tulasi uh Lip tue tale te enor of the see was Ughted by | Dine ‘car, parked in front og The National Observer
an potesed agninst eight ceiling fixtures, each one the truck,
the window panes cf the red
brick and wooden ‘tenements
across the street, or stood shiy-
resembling a mosque, which had
been there since it was a movie
house.
Around the cottin stood eight
eral steel helmets, an a Ne-
woman asked the driver,
Jaughing, “You getting ready
also belonged to a People's World ——____-,_—_ wae
kh eer a a er f
hep et
: television network. Inside, were. 1.
ering on their Pes | _suntformed policemen, and tothe) for next sumi
ada “ side were two uniformed po-|} A” white girl in her mie! 2) E + I
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wo. SS eere police atom remarkably fascinating man. /
.a Negro police plainclothesman!
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