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Malcolm X — Part 34
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a heavy police guard on hand. laent N Nonvislent Coordinating
He was mourned by hundreds;Committee; Bayard Rustin,
of his followers who hailed/who helped organize the civil
him as their “prince.” rights march in Washington;
Their was no violence either!and comedian Dick Gregory,
at the funeral in-Harlem—ljong associated with the civil
televised Jive nationally by rights movement in the South
NBC network—or at the ceme-
tery. Anonymous threats to
“fire bomb” the corpse failed
to materialize.
The Negro militant whose
slaying last Sunday touched
aff warfare among his follow-
ers and the Black Muslims of
Flijah Muhammad, was eulo-
gized as a symbol of hope for
America’s frustrated Negro
millions.
Hundreds of police guarded
the Faith Temple, Church of
Christ, where 600 persons
heard Negro actor and nlay-
wright Ossie Davis praise Mal-
colm as “a prince, our own
black, shiny prince who did:
B: not hesitate to die because he
- loved us 50.”
Several] prominent civil:
rights leaders, earlier oppe-*
nents of Malcolm when he was.
a lieutenant to hate-preaching,
e@ 4°) Muhammad, showed up to pay:
mn al their respects. They character:
= ized him as a former racist
~ FJ who became convinced that;
“* ft men of ail races could live to
. gether after making a trip to
the Islamic shrine at Mecca
last year.
aAmbng,them were, James
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