Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistant dean of the College and a tutor in Leveret House. He is a complex person, at once an Establishment Negro and a vigorously anti-Establishment rebel. The jolly conductor of the Leverett House Glee Club is simply not the same man who writes bitterly about the death of Malcolm X; nor are wither of these the scholar who wishes to "treat Negro history as a problem of social science...
...Malcolm X's murder was big news here as elsewhere in the world. I was not surprised at what you said about some of the Negro students taking Malcolm's death as a loss to the wider protest movement, for there was something worthwhile in his post Black-Muslim attempt to secularize and rationalize certain black nationalist symbols...
...however, quite dismayed at other features of the reaction of some young Negroes to Malcolm's murder. In particular, I was disturbed by their belief that the Negroes in the Muslim Movement could not possible have done Malcolm in, but that "Mr. Charlie" must have done it through the CIA, FBI, or some other devious mechanism. I quote you one instance of this viewpoint I have received from a mutual friend...
...think your article on Brother El Hajj Malik El Shabazz [March 5], better known as Malcolm X, was fair at all. As members of the Afro-American Unity Organization, we are not taught to hate whites but to judge a man according to his prestige. We are taught not to turn the other cheek to the Ku Klux Klan but to defend ourselves in event of attacks. You mentioned all the malicious things done during the life of Brother Malcolm, but you never mentioned the things he has done for Afro-Americans, such as scholarships given to Afro-American students...
...Only the other day, the wife of Malcolm X had several microphones shoved in her face and was asked: 'How did you feel when your husband was assassinated?' How in God's name would anyone think she felt? Incidentally, I thought her dignified answer made her look ten feet tall and the questioners very small indeed...