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. r : ~ 0-19 (Rev. 12-14-64} Tolson Belmont ——_ EO nr - 2 “ DeLoach Casper _...—_____ Yraicoima sneak s— Sallahan : i conrad pic Felt ie sel Ts al The following is the next im 4g Sullivan stallment of the speech made by Tavel Maleolm X in Detroit on Nov. 10, Trotter , Installment $3 Tele Room THE HOUSE NEGRO AND THE Holmes FIELD NEGRO There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Ne- gro. The house Negroes — they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his food — what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved the master more than the master loved himself, They would give their life to save the master’s house — quicker than the master would. If the master said, “We got a good house here,” the house Negro would say, “Yeah, Gandy Muy plY we got a gocd house here.” When- ; er / ever the master said “we,” he Excerpted frem the book, Maicclm 2f—<- 5: “we.” That’s how you can X Speaks, with the permission o _ oe 3 F G3 a house Negro. Merit Publishers, 5 East Third St. { fe es the master’s house caught New York, N.¥. 10003, Price $5.95 Put “eeoae* org fire, the house Negro would a fight harder to put the blaze out CoP77s#ME 1965 by Merit Publish we KO. 15 1465 than the master would. If the mas- ter got sick, the house Negro , . . would say, “What's the matter, And if someone comes to you ne we sick?” We sick! He iden- | ight now and says, “Let’s se fed himself with his master, ' te,” you say the same that th ore than his master identified fiouse Negro said on the plan ” an Id ° , Peon Anite. tae toad white The Washington Post and —_____ wa? ; man? Where you going to get a Timea Herald And if you came te the house a egro “Tp ot ', better job than you got here?” I The Washington Daily News . ee ane san ete rate othe} m an, this is what you say. “I The Evening Star ; house Negro would look at you j ain’t left nothing in Africa,” that’s and sa “Man ou craz What what you say. Why, you left yo New York Herald Tribune ys » you y. mind in Africa. New York Journal-American you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? New York Daily News Where can I wear better clothes New York Post ? an thos Where can t pethartiorl The New York Times house Negro. In those days he : The Baltimore Sun was called a “house nigger.” And that’s what we call them today, because we've still got some house . niggers running around here. Tkis modern house Negro loves his macter. He wants to live near him. He’ll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live — near his master, and then brag THE MILITANT Mele oak ela only Negro out nere.” “I'm the only one om my PAGE 4 job.” “Tm the only one in this school.” You're nothing but a OC NOY 161985 The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer — eee People's World Date __ 21/8/65 _