in Washington, D.C. May 13 Washington Post carries article entitled â400 Hear Malcolm X Speak Hereâ [FBI 5/13/63].
Interviewed by WUST in Washington, D.C, between 1:00 and 1:30 P.M . on the program âFocusâ [FBI 5/12/63?].
May 17, 1963
New York Times reports that MX attacks President Kennedy for the way he dealt with the Birmingham crisis [FBI 11/15/63].
May 25, 1963
New York Amsterdam News reports that MX attacks Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and Floyd Patterson as unwitting tools of white liberals [FBI 11/15/63].
June 7, 1963
Blasts Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty in âMuhammad Speaksâ article and charges Los Angeles with operating a âKu Klux Klan police forceâ that uses Gestapo tactics against the black community and Muslim religious groups.
June 13, 1963
EM instructs MX not to assist the NAACP or any other Negro organization in civil rights demonstrations [FBI 11/15/63].
June 1963
Adam Clayton Powell invites MX to speak at Abyssinian Baptist Church; delivers speech entitled âThe Black Revolution.â
August 17, 1963
Announces at NOI Bazaar in Boston Arena that EM and the NOI are not supporting or participating in the March on Washington [FBI 11/15/63].
August 19, 1963
Informs audience at FOI meeting at Mosque Number No. 7 in New York that NOI members who participate in March on Washington will be given ninety days to leave the mosque [FBI 11/15/63].
August 26, 1963
Replaced as head of NOI in Philadelphia [FBI 11/15/63].
August 27, 1963
Tells a reporter that âwell, whatever black folks do, maybe I donât agree with it, but Iâm going to be there [at the March on Washington], brother, âcause thatâs where I belong.â
August 28, 1963
Attends March on Washington as a critical observer; comments that he canât understand why Negroes should become so excited about a demonstration ârun by whites in front of a statue of a president who has been dead for a hundred years and who didnât like us when he was alive.â
September 1963
Speaks at rally organized by Jackie Robinson.
Fall 1963
Delivers speech in Philadelphia entitled âThe Old Negro and the New Negro.â
November 7, 1963
Speaks at the City College of New York.
November 10, 1963
Delivers âA Message from the Grass Rootsâ in Detroit at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference.
November 22, 1963
President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
December 1, 1963
States at NOI rally in New York that JFK ânever foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon,â despite a directive from Elijah Muhammad that no Muslim minister comment on the assassination [FBI 12/6/63].
December 4, 1963
EM suspends MX from NOI for commenting on the death of President Kennedy [FBI 12/6/63].
January 2, 1964
EM, MX, and two unnamed individuals have a conversation during which they speak at length about recent developments [FBI 1/23/64].
January 6, 1964
Summoned to Phoenix for a secret preliminary hearing with Elijah Muhammad, John Ali, and Raymond Sharrieff; rumors circulate in Harlem that Malcolm has been not only suspended but also âisolated,â which means that all Muslims are forbidden to speak to him.
January 14, 1964
Meets with Alex Haley (writer for Readerâs Digest) at the International Hotel outside Kennedy Airport.
January 15, 1964
During visit with Cassius Clay at his fight camp in Miami, MX tells sports reporters that he will be reinstated with the NOI in ninety days, although he believes the case to be otherwise.
January 21, 1964
Returns to New York from weekâs vacation with family at Cassius Clayâs home in Miami, Florida: Does not attend dinner sponsored by the FOI and MGT of Mosque No. 7 in New York; relaxes in Queens and works on a book about NOI [FBI airtel 1/21/64]. Has not publicly engaged in any NOI activity since being suspended by EM from NOI.
February 4, 1964
States that Bayard Rustin is ânothing but a