Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malcolm X, the former Black Muslim official who has just announced plans to start his own black nationalist political party, will visit Harvard Wednesday to set forth his views on Negro politics...
...March 3, Malcolm X severed his ties with Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim movement to form his own political organization. He said that he would work to encourage Negroes to abandon non-violent tactics for active measures of self-defense against whites throughout the country. In one instance, he called upon Negroes to carry fire-arms for use in emergency situations...
...town was New York. Announcing that he had dropped his middle name, Marcellus, in favor of the Black Muslim "X," Clay checked into Harlem's Hotel Theresa, once the Manhattan headquarters of Fidel Castro. He cut a rock-'n'-roll disk for Columbia, passed out free Florida oranges in Times Square, sounded off to reporters on everything from urban renewal ("If I lived in Harlem, I'd move to Long Island") to his relations with the opposite sex: "Like you take a guy cruising along in a Cadillac with $10,000 in the pockets...
Diplomatic Black. Next stop for Cassius was the United Nations. "I am champion of the whole world," he announced grandly, "and I want to meet all the people I am champion of." Carefully attired in diplomatic black and surrounded by his ubiquitous Black Muslim advisers (wherever Cassius went, Malcolm X was sure to go), he strode boldly into the delegates' lounge-instantly creating what one observer described as "the biggest sensation since Khrushchev took off his shoe." Complained Turkish Ambassador Turgut Menemencioglu: "They're more interested in Cassius than in Cyprus." Delegates lined up to shower him with...
...Cairo's University of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Sayed Sabik said: "We are all pleased that a Moslem set such a well-mannered religious example of sportsmanship." And at a "Savior's Day" rally in Chicago, while 4,000 delirious followers shouted "You tell it, dear apostle," Black Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad claimed a share of the heavyweight title for himself. "White people wanted Liston to beat up and probably kill poor little Clay," said Muhammad. "But Allah and myself said no. This assured his victory...