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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht Eure Hautfarbe zu hassen?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht die Beschaffenheit Eurer Haare zu hassen?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht die Form Eurer Nase zu hassen? Und die Form Eurer Lippen?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht Euch selbst von Kopf bis Fuss zu hassen?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht Euer eigenes Volk zu hassen?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht die Rasse der Ihr angehöft zu hassen?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und zwar so sehr, dass Ihr nicht unter Euer Gleichen sein wollt?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bevor ihr fragt, ob Mr. Muhammad Hass lehrt, solltet Ihr Euch fragen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wer Euch beigebracht hat das zu hassen, was Gott aus Euch gemacht hat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die meisten von uns Schwarzen, oder "Negros" wie sie uns nannten, glaubten wirklich wir wären frei.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ohne zu merken, dass in unserem Unterbewusstsein die Ketten die wir los zu sein glaubten, immer noch da waren.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Das Bedürfnis vom Weissen Mann anerkannt zu werden trieb uns in viellerlei Hinsicht an.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm wollte diese Wahrnehmung der Minderwertigkeit bekämpfen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er wusste, dass es mühevoll sein würde und dass manche Leute einen töten würden um das zu verhindern,\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aber er wagte es dieses Risiko auf sich zu nehmen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sagte etwas, das über Jenes was andere Anführer zu jener Zeit meinten hinausging.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Während die anderen Anführer um Einlass in das Haus ihrer Unterdrücker bettelten, sagte er dir ein eigenes Haus zu bauen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er vertrieb die Furcht der Afro-Amerikaner und sagte: "Ich werde laut aussprechen was wir uns denken."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ihr werdet sehen, die Leute werden davon hören und uns nicht unbedingt was antun.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aber ich spreche nicht für die Massen."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sagte das auf eine starke, männliche Art die aussagte:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ich habe keine Angst davor das auszusprechen was wir uns all die Jahre nur gedacht haben."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deshalb liebten wir ihn. Er sagte es offen, nicht hinter verschlossenen Türen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er hat sich für uns mit Amerika angelegt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und ich jedenfalls, als Muslim, glaube, dass der Weisse Mann klug genug ist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wenn wir ihm verständlich machen könnten was die Schwarzen wirklich denken \N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und wie satt wir es haben, ganz ohne kontraproduktiven Schmeicheleien.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nun, ihr macht es euch ja selbst schwer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Der Weisse Mann glaubt Euch die Schmeicheleien, weil ihr ihm schmeichelt seit er Euch hierhergebracht hat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hört auf damit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sagt ihm was Ihr denkt! Sagt ihm in welcher Hölle Ihr euch befindet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dass er kein Haus haben sollte, wenn er es nicht in Ordnung bringen kann.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Es sollte Feuer fangen und verbrennen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schon fast das ganze Jahrhundert haben die Schwarzen in diesen Strassen in Harlem ihre Kultur gefeiert.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und die Rassenfrage in Amerika diskutiert.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hier reihte sich Malcolm zum ersten Mal bei den Strassen-Rednern ein, die den Hoffnungen und dem Zorn von Harlem eine Stimme liehen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich lehrte Nationalismus und will raus aus dem Land des Weissen Mannes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,denn Integration wird nie stattfinden.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So lange Ihr lebt werdet Ihr euch nicht ins System des Weissen Mannes integrieren können!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,125te Strasse und 7te Avenue. was das Zentrum der Aktivitäten der Strassen-Redner. <<
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Als Malcolm dazu stiess hatte er eigentlich keinen Standort.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also etablierte er seinen Platz vor dem Buchgeschäft von Elder Michaux.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Als Malcolm die kleine Plattform bestieg, kam er für die ersten vier oder fünf Minuten gar nicht zum sprechen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und dann öffnete er seinen Mund <<
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man nennt Mr. Muhammad Hassprediger, weil er Euch dazu bringt Drogen und Alkohol zu hassen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man nennt Mr. Muhammad Rassist, weil er uns nicht nur lehrt, dass wir so gut wie der Weisse Mann sind, sondern besser.\N\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ihr seid besser als der Weisse Mann!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aber das heisst nicht unbedingt viel. Wir wissen ja, dass wir besser sind als er.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was ist er schon für ein Vergleich? Seht Euch seine Haut an. Verglichen mit seiner sieht Eure Haut wie Gold aus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Es gab eine Zeit in der wir begeistert von den Weissen waren. <<
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir dachten, sie wären schön, weil wir blind und dumm waren.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir konnten nicht Ihr wahres Gesicht erkennen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seit der ehrenwerte Elijah Muhammad uns den Islam nähergebracht und uns gezeigt hat wie wir uns bessern können,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sehen wir diese alte, blasse Gestalt genau so wie sie ist. Alt und blass.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diese Ansprache zeigte mir, dass es kein zurück gab, wenn man ihn erst einmal reden gehört hat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Selbst wenn man seine Meinung nicht änderte, musste man Sie überdenken.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hier in unseren nördlicheren Städten waren wir es nicht gewohnt gesagt zu bekommen, dass wir Teufel und Unterdrücker waren
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sprach für eine leise Masse schwarzer Menschen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und zwar ganz offen über die eigenen Sender der Teufel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und das war eine Kriegshandlung.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he came off the stage I jumped off the ???, walked up to him
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course when I got to him the Bodyguards moved in front.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he just pushed them away and I went in front of him, extended my hand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said: "I like some of what you said. I didn't agree with all what you said, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I liked some of what you said."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looked at me, held my hand in a very gentle fasion and said: "One day you will, siter". And he smiled.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make his message clear, Malcolm used his own life as a lesson to all black americans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He preched it in fables and parables. And later in writing his autobiography with Alex Haley,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he sought some control in how his life would be interpreted in the future.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be rather ??? taken by a statement that he made of himself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would say: "I am a part of all I admit." And by that he meant that all the things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had done in his earlier life had exposed him to things, that taught him skills of ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...all of which had synthesized ??? into the Malcolm who became the spokesman for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nation of Islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were born in Omaha, is that right? - Yes sir.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your family left Omaha when you were about one year old? ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I imagine about a year old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did they leave Omaha? - To my understanding the Ku Klux Klan burned down one of their homes in Omaha.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This made your family very unhappy I'm sure. - Well, insecure if not unhappy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you must have a somewhat prejudiced POV, a personally prejudiced POV.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot look at this in a broad academic sort of way. - I think this ain't correct.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because despite the fact that that happened in Ohama and then when we moved to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lansing, Michigan our home was burned down again. My father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And despite all of that no one was more thoroughly integrated with whites than I.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one had lived more so in the society with whites than I.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were the only black children in the neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the back of our property we had a wooded area.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the white kids would all come to our house and they'd go back and play in the woods.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Malcolm would say: "Let's go play Robin Hood." So we would go back there and play
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Robin Hood and Robin Hood was Malcolm.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these white kids ???.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm said he was the lightest skinned of the seven children born to Earl and Louis Little.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A reminder, he said, of the white man who had raped his mothers mother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1929, when Malcolm was 4 years old his father, a carpenter and preacher moved the family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Lansing Michigan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lansing was a small town and the west side was the side of town the blacks lived on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm and his family lived outside of the city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they had a four acre parcel with a small house on it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they were sort of considered as farmers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three months after the Littles moved in white neighbours took legal action to evict them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A county judge ruled that the farm property was restricted to whites only.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Earl Little refused to move.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here in Michigan, Klu Klux Klan Membership was at least 7.000.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five times more than in Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Malcolms family white hostility was a fact of life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody was asleep in our house and all of a sudden we heard a big boom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we woke up fire was everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everybody was running into the walls and into each other, you know?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I recall about that was my mother telling us: "Get up, get up, get up! The house is on fire! Get out!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I actually recall.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could hear my mother yelling, I could hear my father yelling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so they made sure they got us all rounded up and got us out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The house burned down to the ground. No fire wagon came. Nothing. We were burned out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolms father Earl Little accused local whites of setting the fire. The police accuse Earl and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arrested him on suspicion on arson. The charges were later dropped.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the city where we grew up whites would refer to us as "Those uppity Niggers" or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Those smart Niggers who live outside of town."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In those days whenever a white person refered to you as a "Smart Nigger" that was their way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of saying a "Nigger you have to watch" because he's not dumb.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father was independent. He didn't want anybody to feed him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to raise his own food. He didn't want anybody to exercise authority over his children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to exercise the authority and he did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was always speaking in terms of Marcus Garvey's way of thinking and trying to get black
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people to organize themselves. Not to cause any trouble but just to work in unity with each other
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toward improving their conditions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in those days if you did that you were still considered a trouble maker.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1920's Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist preached that black americans should build a nation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,independent of white society.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With memberships in the hundreds of thousands Garvey's "Universal Negro Improvement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Association" sought closer ties with african countries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The UNIA had its own flag, its own National Anthem and and african legioun pledged to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,defend black people at home and abroad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US Bureau of Investigation labeled Garvey one of the prominent Negro agitators.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The federal government deported him in 1927 but Malcolm's parents remained Garvey-ans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Earl recruited new members, Louise wrote for the Garvey newspaper.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother was the one who would read to us the Garvey paper which was called "The Negro world".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she also would talk to us about ourselves being independent ???.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We shouldn't be calling ourselves Negros or Niggers and that we were black people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we should be proud to call ourselves black people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is your real name? - Maclolm X.\NIs that your legal name? - As far as I'm
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerned it is my legal name.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you mind telling me what your fathers last name was=
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather and his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slave master.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery - Was there any line, any point
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the genealogy of your family when you did have to use the last name, and if so, what was it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made slaves and then the name of their slavemaster was given which we refuse. We reject
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that name today... - \NYou mean you won't even tell me what your fathers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supposed last name was or gifted last name was?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,September 1931. Malcolm was six years old when his mother had a premonition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were all in the house and had dinner, supper together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my mother was holding Wesley, who was my youngest brother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she ??? nursing him 'cause when she fell asleep nursing, holding the baby ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father had gotten up and went into the bedroom ??? to clean up and to go down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and collect money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she woke up and she said: "Earl, don't go downtown! If you go you won't come back."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That night around 11 o'clock Earl Little was found in an isolated area outside Lansing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His body almost cut in to by the wheels of a streetcar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police reported Earl Littles death an accident.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a cloud over that whole issue, because at that time there was perceive that rather
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than an accident with a streetcar that Rev. Little had really been pushed under the wheels of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the streetcar. As a matter of fact I remember hearing just that language, that he was probably pushed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the wheels of that street car.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My fathers death caused great, great shock in the family, because he was the power. He was the strenght.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were an organized and structured family. When we got out of school, me and my brothers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sisters we'd come right home and go to work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the garden, clean the chicken shed and get ready for the night.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And get up in the morning and all of this. We'd pump the water and bring in the house.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was ??? dad was alive. Because to not do this brought the consequences of a whipping.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we were disciplined.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And than after my father got killed and my mothers inability to run as fast as I could run
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Malcolm enabled us to get away with a lot of things we wouldn't even have tried get away with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we got looser and looser.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Louise Little struggled to raise her seven children through the years of gread depression.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was reduced to where shehad no income. She tried get jobs ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a proud lady. She had a lot of pride.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She sold. She ?? people. She did alot of things not to be dependent sorely on welfare.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She didn't like them telling her but she could ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is one of the main things that devestated her more than anything else.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As time whent by you could see she was wearing down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For seven years as Malcolm grew into adolescents his mother slowly withdrew from her family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two days vefore christmas 1938, Louise Little was diagonosed as paranoid and was sent to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kalamazoo State Hospital.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I came home from school one day and she wasn't there. I can remember feeling empty
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'cause my mother would never left us. ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I felt the pain of her being gone everyday and it was only gonna be a couple of weeks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was gonna get better and come right back home. And it turned into years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Louise Little would remain in Kalamazoo for the next 26 years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The 13 year old Malcolm watched as the court split up his family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Assigning the younger children to foster homes in Lansing and sending him to a white community
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ten miles away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the past the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to devide and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conquer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because this digits are seperated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a man who in the eight grade in Michigan, a school where I think he was the only black
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in his class and one of the very few in the school have been an outstanding straight A student.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know who had been incited ??? president of his class.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all the others were white in the eight grade and obviously he had to be exceptional to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be those things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you had the Malcolm who had left school and who had gone to Roxbury, Massachusetts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where he had gotten his first exposure to what might loosely ??? be told hustling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I called myself a little Hustler up in Roxbury in those days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this particular day ??? Malcolm X had come into Buscity???, had on his zoot suit with the wide
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? had with the long 3/4 lenght coat ?? with the chain that went down to your ankles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last time I recall, Cab Calloway used that outfit for his stage uniform.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm left Lansing he had nothing but an old square suit on. White man suit as I call it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he came back from Boston, oh Lord, Malcolm had a zoot suit on him and a wide brim hat with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chain from his hat down to his lapel. He was the top of the town. Everybody was talking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Malcolm.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he was dancing on the floor, and he was floating around those pants ??? like he was a floating balloon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that coat was like a wing. The way he'd be dancing ??? flying around with that big ???.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this used to really shake up the girls.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Boston they called him "New York Red" in New York they called him "Detroid Red".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,?????????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he had pictures of him and Billy Holiday and all these people of that time out there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who were just being made known to the rest of the black world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm works the kitchen crew on the New Haven Railroad between Boston, New York
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Washington DC.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1942 he moved to Harlem and at age 17 began travelling in a world of ??? after hour clubs and small time hustlers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had reached a point at where he said: "You'll never make it on this janitory jobs and selling
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sandwiches on these trains and shining shoes and stuff like that. You never will get anywhere."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had the reputation of being a hustler.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he was a street person but he was a hustler.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a con man.????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the white folks ??? came out at night and they wanted black women, he could arrange for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them to get them. If they wanted bootleg-whiskey he knew where to get it. If they wanted drugs he knew where to get it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He made it possilbe. He knew what they wanted and he knew where to get it and he would be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle where he could make a profit off of it. And this is the way he started doing it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking back at that time, Malcolm said: "Only three things worried him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jail, a job and the army.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To avoid derving in WW2 he told his draft board that he wanted to organize black soldiers to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kill whites.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was judged unfit for the military.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolms gambling and drugs and Harlems night life were expensive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had already been arrested twice for petty crimes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he moved back to Austin back in 1945 he organized a gang to burglurise homes of prominent families.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other gang members included his friend Malcolm Jarvis, his white girlfriend B. and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two other white women.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This girl knew that these people were down to Florida that time of the year. There was nobody
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home, so we broke into the house and we'd get some of their valuables and Malcolm would take
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the stuff and pawn it and get money for his gambling habit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After two weeks of doing this that's when the case broke ??? when he made the mistake of going to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the pawn shop to retrieve a watch with over a thousand dollars that came out of one of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the houses. That's when he was arrested by three police men.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm Little, Malcolm Jarvis and the three women were charged with breaking and entering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that two black men were with white women becaome an issue in the court.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was definitely involved with two white women and this is what made the case so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powerful. So outrages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The women testified that Malcolm had forced them to participate in the burglaries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two men received the maximum sentence. 8-10 years in state prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they sentenced us, I went out of my mind. I reached up and grabbed the bars of the cage and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shook them, almost shook them right up off the floor, and I hollered at the judge. And I said to him,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You might as well kill me as to give me 10 years in jail."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I was they call a mad negro. I was one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew what I saw was real. I knew there wasn't anything funny about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that when they laughed all together they were laughing: "Look what we did. We doing it to the Negro."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they had the unintimitadet gall
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ask the girls, before they took them out of there, to press charges against us for rape.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girls wouldn't do it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm Little was 20 years old, facing 8-10 years in state prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had wandered far from the Garvey pride and independence his parents had preached.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was now prisoner number 22843.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To have once been a criminal is no disgrace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I formerly was a criminal. I formerly was in prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not ashamed of that. You never can use that over my head, and he is using the wrong stick.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't feel that stick.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They charged Jesus with sedition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't they do that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said he was against Cesar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said he was discriminating because he told his desciples, :
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Go not the way of the gentiles, but rather go to the lost sheep.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Got to the people who don't know who they are. Who are lost from the knowledge of themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And who are strangers in a land that is not theirs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to those people! Go to the slaves! Go to the second class citizens!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to the ones who are suffering the wrath of Cesars brutality!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if Jesus were here in america today he wouldn't be going to the white man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The white man is the oppressor! He would be going to the oppressed. He would be going to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the humble. He would be going to the ???. He would be going to the rejected and the despised.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would be going to the so called american negro.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prison 1946
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behind prison walls Malcolm hustled bets, fed his drug habit and argued against the exiscante of god.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The men in his cell block called him "Satan".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the same time encouraged by an older black inmate, Malcolm began reading and taking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,english courses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm described vividly prison life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he was in effect lonely and limited ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but had plans for....He was going to do a lot of reading.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he certainly did a lot of writing, because I think there were times when he probably
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrote me every week.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the second year in prison his brothers and sisters wrote to him about what they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "The natural religion for the black man".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A religion that taught that black people were the original people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That god was black and was called Allah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They told Malcolm that they were now a part of the Nation of Islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Followers of the honorable Elijah Muhammed, the messenger of Allah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Islam is one of the greatest religion of all time for all people of america.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The so called american negro have to be completely re-educated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Islam gives him that qualification that he can feel proud and does not feel ashamed to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called a black man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came into the muslim movement in 1947. And then started to bring my brothers and sisters in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We already had been indoctrinated with americas ??? philosophy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they didn't have anything to do wiht convincing us about we were black and should be proud,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were already that when we came in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wrote to Malcolm and told him about...I said to him: "If you will believe in Allah,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he would get out of prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's all I wrote because I know that he had very low tolerance for religion and I didn'T
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intend to use that tolerance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm's brothers and sisters wrote the young prisoner that black people in america were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of a lost tribe. Soon to be delivered out of bondage. And that whites, according to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed - were a race of devils whose domination on earth was about to end.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first he liked every bit of it except one thing he couldn't understand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was the part that we were teaching about the white man being the devil.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm wrote to Elijah Muhammed. And Elijah Muhammed answered.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he answered he would recite the part of ??? scripture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he gave him the key. He said the key the bible is this book, that everything that takes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,place in this bible is on this earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you don't have to die to go to hell, you can catch ??? hell while you are living.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the white man is the one that is putting the hell on you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that's a very convincing teaching, especiall when you use the white mans history to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coraborate this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm began reading history, philosophy and religion. The writing of D.E.B Debois, Shakespeare, Sokrates, The Fables of ???, The lives
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Gandhi and Ned Turner.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he finds all this history of how white christians lynched black christians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White christians were the once who were involved in the slave trade. Those were christians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Malcolm began to see this and then he began to study it himself and prove that if there is such
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a thing as a real devil on this earth it has to be the white man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed told Malcolm to submit to Allah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for Malcolm submission would always be difficult.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took a week before he could force himself to bow in prayer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later, to help spread the teachings of Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm joined the prison debate team.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Competing about visiting college teams from harvard and MIT.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when Malcolms name and fame started to spread amongst the prison population.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as the population started to grow at the debating classes, most of the fellas used to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come over out of curiosity, just to hear him speak.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1950 Malcolm wrote to the Governor demanding the right to practice the muslim religion in prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His letters would later end up in FBI files.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bureau had been keeping a close watch on the Nation of Islam since the late 1930s.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm considered a trouble maker, was denied an early parole.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was not eligible to be led out at that time because he had been a threat to society.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They considered him dangerous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowledge-wise and otherwise, religious-wise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would have been like a rotten appel in a box full of a thousand. He was gonna spoil many.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On August 7th 1952, after six and a half years in prison Malcolm was released.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within a month he was accepted into the nation of islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm Little had become Malcolm X.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did you happen to join the muslim movement?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in prison. I was a very wayward criminal, backward, illiterate, uneducated and whatever
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other negative characteristics you could think of, type of person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until I heard the teachings of the honorable Elijah Muhammed. And because of the impact that it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had upon me, in giving me a desire to reform myself and rehabilitate myself for the first time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my life. Also to be able to see the effect that it had upon others. This is what made me accept it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I noticed that after being exposed to the religious teachings of the honorable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed immediately it instilled within me such a high degree of racial pride and racial
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dignity that I wanted to be somebody.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that I couldn't be somebody by begging the white man for what he had.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that I had to get out of here and try to do something for myself or make somethign out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of myself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time that I recalled seeing Malcolm was at the home of my father, honorable Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I saw a thin ?? man, tall man, young man, ???. He was just meeting you, the first thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would get from him was a smile.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: "This is Wallace!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I smiled at him. I was happy to see him because I had heard of him too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said: "The messengers son." And he was so excited about the messenger.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really it wasn't just seeing Wallace, it was seeing the messengers son.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm came out he was just so full of fire. He had gotten so full of fire, that he got out at the right time at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the right place so could expound ???.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came to Detroit, he was surprised to find there was such few people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? powerful deity in his mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says: "I'm surprised that you are sitting here and so many empty seats.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everytime you come out here this place should be full.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that excited the honorable Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the early 1950s the Nation of Islam was unknown in most black communities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Total membership was believed to be no more than 400 people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was sent on the road to spread the message.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within two years he helped organize temples in Boston, Hartford and Philadelphia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed then named Malcolm Minister of the most important temple on the east coast.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harlems temple number 7.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed knew that Malcolm had experience. That he knew New York.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also knew, that he was that kind of men - complexion, height, speech and courage - all has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be taken into consideration, when you select a man to stand before the people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plus, this is an international city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got to have your best in New York. And
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is why Mr. Muhammed selected him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1955, when Elijah Muhammed visited the New York temple it was to inspect the work of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ambitioned and outspoken minister, who had transformed tiny storefronts along the east coast
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a congregation of thousands.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammeds massage made a whole lot of people feel whole again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human being again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Had Elijah Muhammed tried to introduced an orthodox form of ??? oriented islam,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I doubt if he would've attracted 500 people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he introduced a form of islam that could communicate with the people he had to deal with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the king to those who had no king.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ??? thing is that Elijah Mudammed is like nothing I have ever taken. Like some medicine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see. A medicine that has cured me of all my ???. I was a sick man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I embraced the teachings of honorable Elijah Muhammed, these teachings cured me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of decease. I'm a well man now. I feel good.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As long as you stay with the doctor you continue to be good - Yes sir.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about you? How do feel about the honorable Elijah Muhamed? - Honorable Elijah Muhammed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is trying to teach all of ??? people they are ???. - Go ahead brother. - Elijah Muhammed tries to wake them up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside muslim temples no white people were allowed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Members worked to build a self sufficiant community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thounded on strict rules and absolute obedience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nation set up muslim schools for its children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teaching mathematics, sciene, history and arabic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Who is the original man?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The original man is the ??? black man"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The makers of all?? and the king of planet earth"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslim women studied nutrition, child bearing and guidlines on how to care about their husband.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslim man studied parental responsibility, history and religion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The elite core, called "The fruit of Islam" was trained in hand to hand combat and was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expected to protect the temples and to punish any members who spoke out against the messanger.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was surprised when I went to some of the muslim families. The faith that they had in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed and in Malcolm.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked one father: "Suppose your son came home one day and told you that he renounced the muslim
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,religion."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: "I would turn him from my door and I would never allow him in again."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I asked Malcolm. He said: "He meant it and he would do it."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said: "Not worry about what would happen to his son?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, he wouldn't worry about what would happen to him. His allegiance is to Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help expand the Nation of Islam Malcolm created a newspaper: "Muhammed speaks".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And persuaded other black newspapers to carry the messengers weekly column.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His strenght was, once he believed in a thing he would give anything he had to it. All of his energy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd become a workaholic. He'd work day and night for it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He only required around 4 hours of sleep.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many times he wouldn't even get that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Than you just kind of wonder: "How can anybody keep up that kind of ???". But he did it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Day in and day out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plus, on top of that he's reading. He's reading papers, keeping up with what the news is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's just a person that's too ??? to life in such a way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he doesn't miss too much of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At age 32, after devoting 5 years to building the Nation, he sought the approval of Elijah Muhammed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to merry sister Betty X. A college edubated member of Harlems temple number 7.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the years that followed the demands of his ministry allowed little time for his growing family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sometime, if I could catch up, he would have to read to the children. They would always want
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story read again. So that they would really just wait that he was on the last page and say: "Read it again."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He started giving the books different endings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a beautiful sense of humor. Especially if he was kidding me about pork.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a decent human being, smart historian. I give you 99 as a human being and you stop eating
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pork I gonna give you a hundred.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A beautiful sense of humor plus the fact that when you got to know him he was kinda shy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was now in the nation of islams inner circle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammeds most visible represantitive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had the messengers confidence and the loyalty of thousands of muslims.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a sense Malcolm had found a father. Elijah Muhammed had found another son.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's Angry Men tangle with police.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Riot threat as cops beat moslem.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On an april night in 1957 a muslim brother was beaten by New York City police.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His skull fractured, Johnson Hanton lay in a backroom of a Harlem police station.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When word spread that Hanton was dying Malcolm ordered the muslims into the streets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other Harlem residents joined them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The community had endured a long history of police brutality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many considered the police an occupying force.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,18th precinct was notorious for their prejudice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the first time that anyone had marched on to 28th precinct in protest to something that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they felt wasn't right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what would have happened in Harlelm that night because the atmosphere was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not... I think the word to use is charged. Well, this atmosphere was explosive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm demande medical treatment for Hinton.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a long negotiation police agreed to send the prisoner to Harlem hospital.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even then the muslims diffused to disperse.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This seargant came out and tried to chase ??? the muslims who were standing across the street.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm came out and told him: "You can't do that. They're not gonna move for you. I'll send them away."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went out to the front of the station on the first step and just waved his hand and the people walked away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A police commissioner on the scene remarked: "That's too much power for one man to have."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm would later take New York city to court and win the largest police brutality settlement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the cities history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They realized that anytime a person could wave his hand and have a large number of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,automatically move away without any conversation, that by the same token that same
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man could wave his hand and cause those people to create some kind of disturbance if he wanted to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe from that point on the police department and the political people in New York City realized
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had a significant force in the city to deal with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hate that hate produced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good evening I'm Mike Wallace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week on news beat our 6:30 news program on January 13, we presented a five part series
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we called the hate that hate produced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The study of the rise of black racism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of a call for black supremacy among a small but growing segment of the american negro population.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have come to here??? and to see the greatest and wisest and most ...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This 1959 documentary was the first television portrayal of the internal activities of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nation of Islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm saw the television program as an opportunity. Elijah Muhammed was against it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed told malcolm no. It wasn't gonna do any good.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All it would do is hurt us. ??? we were trying to do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm wasn't satisfied. He didn't insist but he continued to ask Mr. Muhammed, could he do it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed reluctantly agreed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Trial," Nation of Islam Play. -\NI charge the white man with being the greates liar on earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Trial," Nation of Islam Play. -\NI charge the white man, ladies and gentlemen of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the jury with being the greatest murder on earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I charge the white man of being the greatest adultere on earth, so therefor...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here was this auditorium overflowing. Thousands of people about ??? an organization
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew nothing about. I found it difficult to critic when I saw it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course when we put it on the air, New Yorkers - cause that's all that saw it - were stunned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was this organisation, "The Black Muslims", about which white New Yorkers simply knew nothing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Minister Malcolm X, as he addresses a non-muslim audience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could so few white people rule so many black people? This is the thing you should wanna know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could so few...The white man today will tell you that thousands of years ago, the black man
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in africa was living in palaces.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The black man in africa was wearing silk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The black man in africa was cooking and seasoning his food.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The black man in africa had mastered arts and the sciences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn't flat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that right or wrong?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was amazed at his ??? to communicate. And at the naked honesty with which he expressed his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings about black people or the white people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He scared me. I'm sure he intended to. But certainly??? after I saw him in The hat that hate produced
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that I would never forget this man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I first saw Malcolm on the television, he scared me also. ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn off that television. That man is saying stuff you aint supposed to hear.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So of course we did. But always, you know when the sun comes into the window and you jump up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get it, to close the blinds or pull down the shades, but before you do that the sun comes in?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, before each time we turned the televition off a little sun came in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the documentary helped bring in new converts, the racial views of the Naition of Islam
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shocked white america and many in the black community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Preaching of racial hatred and racial advantage and the bigotry involved is a bad thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wheter it's colored or white. For years the NAAPD has been opposed to white extremists preaching
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hatred of nagro people and we are equally opposed of negro extremists preaching against
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white people simple for the sake of whiteness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most in the civil rights movement believed that integration was the way to solve americas racial problems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Malcolm preached that black people were able to solve their own problems without the help of whites.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At a time when black americans began to identify with freedom movements in africa and latin america,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm developed alliances with revolutionary leaders from around the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He encouraged to see themselves not as a minority but as a part of a world majority.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The riots ??? of african nations ??? with the spread with the nation of islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the civil rights movement. Gave black america a burst of pride.over and above anything we had had.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will ??? wipe away our tears. That's the benifit of our unity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are passing the basket through the crowd and I think anybody standing here should put
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one dollar in that basket. Don't you think you should? Sure, this are freedom dollars, brothers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not asking you to give us some money to make us rich, we put up business. The honorable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed had set up more business than any black man in america.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nation Of Islam with its interlocking corporations was now reputed to be the largest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black owned business empire in the united states.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nation of Islam, during the early 60s was perhaps enjoying its best days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were opening restaurants and grocery stores and seen the Muhammed speaks paper compete
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with other black papers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen Malcolm on television kind of frequently. We were proud of him. In our opinion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was doing an excellent job of representing the honorable Elijah Muhammed and the Nation of Islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were seeing the Fruit of Islam not just exercising in some small facilities but seeing them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great numbers, hundreds of them, on the streets of big cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My view on the Fruit of Islam was that these were the absolute baddest, cleanest brothers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had seen in my life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was some bad blood, you don't understand? I mean you did not mess with FOI. When they came
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out in the street people would say: "Yes sir!".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The growing presence of the Fruit of Islam attracted police attention. There were increasing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,numbers of confrontations and arrests.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm warned that members of the FOI would always obey the law, but would also defend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves if attacked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In cities across america police agencies were determined to contain the black muslims.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only a matter of time until the two forces would again collide.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a spring night in 1962 another confrontation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It began as a stop and search of muslim men delivering dry cleaning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It ended with a full police assault on the muslim temple.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time 8 men were shot. 1 Police officer and 7 muslims.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Temple secretary Ronald Stokes was dead at the scene.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I arrived at the mosque in Los Angeles after the shootin took place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was great sadness amongst people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was walking back and forth shaking his head: "They're gonna pay for it."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anyone would break into our temples we would defend it with our lives. The temple was sacred.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those brothers, they acted on what they were taught. And I'm sure that anyone seeing police
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,break into a church would be outraged.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This didn't cause us a great surprise to us, the fact that they would resist our police officers and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause trouble because we have been watching this group for a long time and Chief Parker
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,warned some time ago that we might have trouble with them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims riot. Kultist killed, policeman shot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Los Angeles times reported the insident as a muslim riot and a wild gun fight.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four Wounded, 26 taken into custody; two officers beaten.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims shoot, beat police in wild gunfight. \NBut it was never proven that any of the guns fired
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims shoot, beat police in wild gunfight. \Nbelonged to the muslims.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm called for churches and civil rights organisations to form a united fund with the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,muslims against police brutality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us remember that we are not brutalised because we are baptist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not brutalised because we're methodists,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not brutalised because we're muslims,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are not brutalised because we're catholic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are brutalised because we are black people in america.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm telling you they came out of those cars and we have enough witnesses to hang them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With their guns smoking. Chief Parker knows this, Mayor ??? knows this and every police official in the city knows that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't fire no warning shots in the air. They fired warning shots point blank at innocent,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unarmed, defenseless negroes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause I say, two of the brothers were shot in the back.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another was shot in the shoulder.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two of them was shot - excuse the expression - through the penis.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you something. You say, we hate white people? We don't hate anybody.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We love our own people so much they think we hate the ones who are inflicting injustice against them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coroner's INquest 1962
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrolman Donald Wease, the officer who killed Ronald Stokes testified that he knew Stokes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was unarmed but that Stokes had raised his hand in a menacing way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The all white coroners jury deliberated 22 minutes and found the death a justifiable homicide.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,14 muslims were then ordered to stand trial on assault charges.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11 would be found guilty and sentenced to prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were people that sayin ???: "Never be the aggressor but if someone attacks you, we do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not teach you to turn the other cheek."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were muslims who were not from the east coast, but from other parts of the country, that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would actually ?? to go out there and kill those police officers even though they may have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been killed in the process of doing it. But that's how strong the attitude of muslims was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against those brothers just being shot like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muhammad speakes: Court sets murdere free!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conflict of the Los Angeles mosque brought to the surface the growing differences between
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The messenger insisted Allah would evange Stokes death, but Malcolm demanded justice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the courts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would it have been possible for them to get a fair trial ther would be no necessity for a trial at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the victims of police bullets and you don't take the victims to court as a criminal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You take the one who shot the victim to court. And it is the police who should be on trial here in Los Angeles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm began to talk less and less about god is going to get rid of the caucasian.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he began to talk about how we were gonna be able to bring him to justice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And make them guilty and that they are not guilty according to the law of the land. ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was not our argument at all. Our argument was that we were devine people and that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would be protected and finally delivered. Put into the seat of authority by Allah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was our teaching at that time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To avoid further confrontations with city authorities, Elijah Muhammed summoned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm to a meeting at the messengers home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed told him very definitely: "If you had reacted the way you should have reacted,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have had more faith in Allah, Ronald Stokes would be alive."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was it. ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm said ????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just listened.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed told him: "That's one man that we lost. I never did tell you that we were going to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lose anyone. But that's the way it is when you build an alligience???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: "They were wrong. But if I send my followers out there to do battle with those people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an alley??, undercover or on top of the cover, they will get slaughtered and I'm not gonna do that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm didn't like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had always said: "Muslims don't back down." In Harlem he had now to explain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happened in Los Angeles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ronald Stokes was not the least ??? among the followers of the honorable Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was one of the highest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the secretary of our Los Angeles mosque.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we explained ??? on me, many of you thought that we should go right on out then,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make war on the white man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wanted to do it yourself didn't you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wanted some action then, didn't you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause you don't like the idea of white people shooting black people down, do you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're ready to do something about it? Aren't you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know you are and the white man should be thankful that god has given the honorable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed the control over his followers that he has.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Told him to play it ??? cool, calm and collected.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And leave it in the hands of god.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the months following the Los Angeles insident, Malcolms faiths in the messenger were further
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tested by rumors about Elijah Muhammed private life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once a months he would go to Chicago to take money to Elijah Mohammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he would always go to the side door.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on this particular day, when he got to the side door there were three young ladies and they were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knocking and banging on the door: "Open the doodr, open the door! We need money for food,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our children don't have this or the other."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He immediately felt that, number one he didn't belong there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had long dismissed stories that Elijah Muhammed had fathered eight children with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six of his secretaries. Now he approached the messengers son Wallace to confirm what he had
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I told him: "Yes, I know about that. You can see things but you don't wanna see it, so you just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,block it out of your mind. I'm aware of secretaries having some kind of reletiaonship with my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,father. ??? with their children. I've seen him take that children and somewhere in my consciousness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sure I was ??? that that was his family, but I never accepted it to deal with it in my mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never did I accept it to deal with it in my mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Officials in the nation accused Wallace Muhammed of starting rumors and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conspiring against his father.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The charge that I gave Malcolm information on my fathers domestic situation is true but only after
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had already told me that he witnessed that sitiuation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives me great pleasure and an honor and ??? at this time to introduce to you and present to you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the messenger of Allah, your admired and beloved ??? teacher, the most honorable and humble
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had submitted himself to Elijah Muhammed as his spiritual leader.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never tried to see anything else.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the things that he tried to put into practice himself, he thought were also being practiced
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by his leader.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he found out differently, it just took all of the wind out of his sails.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In public the two men continued to embrace. In private suspicion had replaced faith.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The relationship was further complicated by Elijah Muhammeds failing health.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolms popularity vastly improved.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number one, Mr. Muhammed was thinking he had bronchitis. So Mr. Muhammed went to ??? public meetings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe once, twice a year. That's it. And the rest of the time Malcolm was going everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Malcolm who sparked the growth of the Nation all over the country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was in demand. Nobody was asking for Elijah Muhammed to speak, they were asking for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm to speak. And naturally Malcolm got more involved with the civil rights struggle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And his argument became more an argument that you would expect from someone who was in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civil rights struggle, then you would from someone who was following the honorable Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The 60s showed us the white man in an image that the Nation of Islam had cast him in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the image of a brutal person, you know. Turning the dogs out on the demonstrators.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using the fire hoses. All this helped the Nation of Islam charge against the white race.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And made it possible for the Nation of Islams spokesman, Malcolm X, to get the press, to get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the camera on him and to state what he had confidence in, that was an alternative,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was seperation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As muslims we believe that seperation is the best way, and the only sensible way. Not integration.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on the other hand, when we see our people being brutalized by white bigots, white racists,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think that they are foolish to allow themselves to be beaten and brutalized and do nothing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatsoever to protect themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a dog is biting a black man the black man should kill the dog.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wheter if that dog is a police dog, a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is ?? on a black man
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supposedly his than that black man should kill that dog or any two legged dog who ??? the dog on him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm talks, ??? talk, ?? articulate for all the negro people who hear them, who listen to him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's Malolm's great authority over any of his audiences. He ??? their reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was probably about 14 years old and I was involved in a demonstration at this construction site.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The community was demanding integration of the work force.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We realized that Malsolm had come to watch the demonstration, when my shift changed I ran
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the street to talk to Malcolm. We had quite an argument that morning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he tried to explain to me what was wrong with my laying down on the ground in front of a cement truck.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm said if these are people who could lynch black people, murder black children,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enslave black people, why couldn't they run over somebody with a truck?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said: "They'd say it was an accident. Oops, my foot slipped, but you'd be "
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as dead." And when he left and I turned around to go back across the street. I went back
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I got on the picket line, but I never laid down on the street in front of a truck again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were sitting across this table at the ????, talking about race relations in america and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm at one point said okay, what's your solution and he was not asking me for advice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just of wanted to put me on the spot for a moment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was at the time under the spell of Dr. King and his notion of the beloved society which
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be colorblind and in which color would not be a disability for anybody.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was kind of looking back at me and said: "You're dreaming. I haven't got time for dreams."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal of Dr. King is full equality...-\NNo. -\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and full rights citizenship for negroes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal of Dr. Martin Luther KIng is to get Negroes to forgive the people who have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brutalized them for 400 years by lulling??? them to sleep and making him forget what
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whites had done to them. But the masses of black people in america today don't go for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Dr. Martin Luther KIng is puttin down. You said in one of your articles, his psychologically insecure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something like this. However you put it. But you didn't endorse what Martin Luther King was doing yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not reject his goals of full integration and full equality rights for american citizens, do you reject...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't think he's walking on the right road I'm quite sure you don't agree that he'll head to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the right place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were aware, or felt that it was somewhat dangerous to be too closely associated
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Malcolm. He was saying some pretty rough things, particularly about whites.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of us who wanted to keep peace with the white world, some of us had our jobs in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white community. We didn't really get too close to Malcolm.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has been suggested also that this movement teaches a gospel of violence, that...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, the black people in this country have been the victims of violence by the hands of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white man for 400 years. And following the ignorant negro preachers, we had thought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And today the honorable Elijah Muhammed has shown black people in this country that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as the white man and every other person on this earth has god given rights, natural rights,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civil rights. Any kind of rights that you can think of when it comes to defending hiself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black people should have the right to defend themselves also.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In August 1963, 250.000 americans for the march on Washington.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm came to us. He told us the story about the ????.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing I can say about Malcolm: Anytime he told us something he could back it up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a ???? and he ??? said, I'm gonna tell you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know what I'm talking about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, who pays the bills for civil rights?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,???????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to fight your battles. And it started in the street, but once you let them become integrated
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and than he relates it to a cup of coffee that is hot and as soon as you water it, put the milk in it cools down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these analogies Malcolm used sometimes were funny, but they hit home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,KIng: ?????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the people that we were organizing had also heard of Malcolm X,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and respected him and listened to him and anytime that he was going to be on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they made an effort to hear those speeches.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And felt that he indeed understood what their problems were and that they needed to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be fought against.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I suppose not always non-violently.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nineteen days after the march of Washington a bomb blew apart the sunday school
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the 16th street baptist church in Bur???, Alabama.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 people were insured.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4 little girls were killed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we're talking about bombing a church and killing 4 little girls.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the feeling of anger and not being able to do something or not doing something was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tremendous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of us sort of became desatisfied.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because sort of became desatisfied.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never spoke of it,??? that we were doing anything to help our people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who'd been brutalized by the whites and the police during the civil rights movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We felt that we should have gotten involved.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One white man named Lincoln supposedly fought the civil war to solve the race problem and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the problem is still here. And then another white man named Kennedy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came along running for President and told negroes what all he was going to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them and they voted for him 80%. He's been in office now for three years and the problem
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is still here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When police dogs were biting black women and black children and black babies in Birmingham, Alabama
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Kennedy talked about what he couldn't do becasue no federal law had been violated and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soon as the negroes exploded and began to protect themselves and got the best of the crackers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Birmingham, then Kennedy sent for the troops.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't have any new law when he sent for the troops when the negroes errupted, than he had at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the time when the whites had errupted. So we are within our rights, and with justification, when we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,express doubt concerning the ability of the white man to solve our problem.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also when we express doubt concerning his integrity, concerning his sincerity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because will have to confess that the problem has been around for a long time and whites
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been saying the same thing about it for the past hundred years and is no nearer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the solution today than a hundred years ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he has changed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Changed from religious talk to ??? talk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the point where I told him (Malcolm), that I listened to him when he first started
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I listen to him now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hear a change. He says: "What kind of change do you mean?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say: "Well, your talks when you first started out caused me to have chills when you speak.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of the truth of what you were saying. But now I don't feel that anymore."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He told his answer to me: "Maybe you have lost your religion or your spirit"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said: "Well, maybe I have, but I'm just letting you know how I feel."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a while we began to notice that there were some rumblings ?? from Elijah Muhammeds family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every now and then there'd be little things they would say to let you know that they got
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a problem with Malcolm rising up before the public like he's doing, because everybody had
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to recognize him now as the spokesman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Spokesman" might be alright, but at the same time he's getting the public (s attention),
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the media has got him. Everybody is all "Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm X"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're hearing Elijah Muhammeds name less and less.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm believed he could handle the jealousies within the Nation of Islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But tentions between him and the messenger would come to a head???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in late November in 1963.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're sittin in the restaurant, drinking coffee, having this meeting and the captain of the mosque,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Joseph, got a telephone call from his wife. He got up and went to the phone booth, took the call
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he came back to the table looking visibly shocked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, that his wife had just told him that Kennedy had been shot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm sent somebody to get a radio out of the back and plugged in the radio and listened.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the announcer was saying: "To repeat. We're confirming that the president has been shot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Dallas, Texas. At this point we don't know how serious it is."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm said immediately: "That devil is dead".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Mr. Muhammed and his son called Malcolm and said:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Brother Minister Malcolm? My father told me to tell you and we're calling all over the country, that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that we should not say anything in a degradory way whatsoever, because the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man was the president of the united states.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that people loved him."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The muslims had schedules a rallye at the manhattan center in new york city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The day of the rallye the messenger called Malcolm to remind him to teach the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiritual side and avoid saying anything about the president's death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he was clearly nervois about what he might say. He spoke from a prepared speech.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never specifically mentioned Kennedy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then as if ??? courting desaster,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he opened the floor up for questions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally he would speak ?????
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this day he asked for questions and answer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went into this litany, comparing other leaders around the world who had somehow sufferd
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hand of the United States Government and his agents and how this compared to what
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just happened to Kennedy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said: "Patrice Lamumba died and his wife became a widow, his people had their leader cut down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the US Government had been involved in doing that."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he went through a ??? of these always winding up with the involvement of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,United States Government.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that the final point when you do those kind of things all around the world you set up an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,situation, an atmosphere, an environment in the world and sooner or later those chickens
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come home to roost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he ??? I was really took ???. I didn't understand that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he answered the question: "Well, I know I'll get in trouble for this, but as far as I'm concerned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a case of the chickens coming home to roost."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? John Ali, the National Secretary was there. That's how Mr. Muhammed got the news so fast.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This ??? is from messenger Elijah Muhammed, the ??? muslim from america.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Malcolm ?? addressed in a public meeting at ?? center in New York City on Sunday, December 1st,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not speak for the muslims when he made comments of the ??? death of the president, John F. Kennedy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was speaking for himself and not muslims in general. And Mr. Malcolm has been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suspended from public speaking for the time being.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muhammad on President Kennedy:\NNation Still Mourns Death
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the Nation of Islam publicly ??? for the slayed president, the leadership announced
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the silencing of Malcolm X for 90 days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was to give no speeches and to have no contect with the press.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were doing alot of Kennedy Stories and therer was going to be a little one talking about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm having been suspended.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was expecting to pick up the phone and I'd get a quote and that would be it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This case he hold me on the phone for longer than I expected.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he sounded upset, he sounded worried and it was the first time I ever sensed vulnerabilty
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this guy who I've always been accustomed to ??? think of as an extremely strong man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will censure of Malcolm X lead to split in muslims?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Newspapers predicted a power struggle within the nation of islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was later learned the FBI fed stories to local reporters in an attempt to deepen the rift
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Malacolm and Elijah Muhammed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm, isolated and exhausted, accepted an invitation to Miami.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where young heavy weight conteder Cassius Clay was training for his championship bout against Sunny Liston.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? member of the nation, Clay had been visiting muslim temples for two years and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had asked malcolm to help him mentally prepare for the fight against Liston.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well going to Florida for my family was honeymoon. My parents refered to it as a honeymoon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course its significance of us going as a family was a much stronger and meaningful for them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For us it was just an opportunity to be with each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as my mother and father talked about it it was the first time in their real life as a marital union.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had time for themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm offered to bring Cassius Clay into the Nation of Islam in exchange for his own
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reinstatement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the nations hirarchy ignored Malcolms offer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LIke most of america they saw the young boxer as a loud mouth with little chance of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beating Lister.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Malcolm watched from ring side the young Clay wore down the older champion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the beginning of the 7th round a batted Liston could not come out of his corner.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay had become the new heavy weight champion of the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? poetry on number seven.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to go to heaven, so I took him ???.