Malcolm X Read Free

Harry Rivlin, acting president of City College of New York, announces that he has no objection to the Eugene V. Debs Club inviting MX to speak on campus.
December 1961
EM returns from tour of Muslim countries and issues directive that NOI temples shall now be called mosques.
January 1962
Delivers speech blasting Negro leadership to an overflowing crowd in Homes Hall at Los Angeles City College.
February 15–16, 1962
In Chicago, debates Bayard Rustin on the topic “Integration or Separation for the Black Man?”
March 11, 1962
New York Journal American reports that civil rights leaders James Farmer and Whitney Young downgrade the influence of MX upon the Negro community and the overall civil rights struggle.
April 27, 1962
NOI member Ronald Stokes dies in police shooting; MX attempts to rally Negroes to protest killing [FBI 11/16/62].
May 1, 1962
Attends a New York symposium sponsored by the Committee to Aid the Monroe Defendants.
May 5, 1962
Conducts funeral services for Stokes [FBI 11/16/62],
May 10, 1962
Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch reports that more than two thousand people attend the funeral of Ronald Stokes; also covers MX press conference concerning the shooting [FBI 11/16/62].
May 17, 1962
Tells Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch that Stokes’s death was “murder in cold blood” [FBI 11/16/62].
May 20, 1962
Speaks at protest rally at Park Manor Auditorium. Claims that socialists, communists, and liberals are joining to get rid of the common enemy with white skin [FBI 11/16/62].
June 6, 1962
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner reports on a tape recording of an NOI meeting in which MX states that a recent plane crash in Paris was Allah’s way of executing justice upon those responsible for the lynching of Stokes [FBI 11/16/62].
September 15, 1962
Delivers impromtu address at outdoor rally in Harlem to protest police brutality.
November 26, 1962
Dora McDonald, secretary to Martin Luther King, Jr., informs MX that King refuses to debate him because “he has always considered his work in a positive action framework rather than engaging in consistent negative debate.”
December 1962
Delivers speech entitled “Black Man’s History” at Mosque No. 7.
1962
Rumors of EM’s adultery cause numerous Muslims to leave Chicago Mosque No. 2; MX talks to three of EM’s former secretaries, all of whom have had children by EM. MX learns that EM’s son Herbert has been instructing “Muhammad Speaks” writers to feature MX as little as possible.
January 1, 1963
Speaks at New York Mosque No. 7 dinner program, “A Night with the FOI,” which includes music, exhibits, drills, and special demonstrations by the FOI.
January 30, 1963
Speaks at Hi-Fi Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina [FBI 3/13/63].
February–April 1963
Feelings of resentment and animosity develop between MX and EM’s family [FBI 11/16/62].
February 3, 1963
In an interview at WMAL in Washington, D.C., MX states that EM does not advocate overthrow of the government. Says FBI goes beyond its duty in “religious suppression” of Muslims [FBI airtel 2/04/63].
February 4, 1963
States during WMAL program that “the FBI spends twenty-four hours a day infiltrating or trying to infiltrate Muslims” [FBI 2/04/63].
February 26, 1963
Takes control of NOI Convention in Chicago. FBI claims that EM’s family resents MX’s alleged statements against EM and his family and his attempts to advise the family [FBI 11/16/62].
March 10, 1963
Returns to New York from Chicago on orders from EM. [FBI 11/16/62].
April 1963
Flies to Phoenix, Arizona, to meet with EM at EM’s home
April–October 1963
Serves as Interim Minister of the NOI in Washington, D.C. [FBI 11/15/63].
May 1963
Writes apologetic letter to EM telling him they should work together and not be divided [FBI 11/15/63].
May 1963
Interviewed by James Baldwin on television.
May 12, 1963
Speaks to audience of four hundred at radio station WUST