Malcolm X (60 page)

FRANKLIN PARK, COLUMBUS, OHIO

MAY NINETEEN, NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO

ON MAY NINETEEN LAST, A RELIABLE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ADVISED THAT A RALLY CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY ONE THOUSAND NEGROES WAS HELD IN FRANKLIN PARK, COLUMBUS, ON MAY NINETEEN LAST IN HONOR OF MALCOLM X. SOURCE ADVISED HOWARD FULLER, PRESIDENT OF MALCOLM X UNIVERSITY, GREENBOROUGH, N.C. TOLD THE RALLY HE RECENTLY SPENT EIGHT WEEKS WITH RHODESIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND THAT THEY MUST UNITE BEHIND THEIR AFRICAN BROTHERS. FULLER CLAIMED POLICE IN THE U.S. ARE IN COLLUSION WITH BLACK DRUG PUSHERS TO PREVENT BLACKS FROM BEING INVOLVED IN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES. FULLER URGED CROWD TO TRAVEL TO W DC FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY, MAY TWENTY SEVEN NEXT.

SOURCE ADVISED CROWD MARCHED FROM PARK THROUGH EAST SIDE OF COLUMBUS RETURNING TO
PARK AND DISPERSING AT TEN PM MAY NINETEEN LAST ALL WITHOUT INCIDENT.

Jackson, Mississippi
May 31, 1972

On May 23, 1972, a confidential source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that The Black Unity Coordinating Committee and the Social Science Division of Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, furnished a program in connection with Malcolm X's birthday of May 19, 1972.

Source stated this meeting was held on May 17, 1972, and that the principal speaker, Norman Hodges, was invited to speak by Roy Walker, senior student at Tougaloo College and president of The Black Unity Coordinating Committee, Tougaloo College.

Source stated that during the afternoon and evening sessions actual attendance was only sixty to seventy persons, primarily students.

RE: Bureau Letter to Albany, 4/19/72.

No information concerning above captioned matter has come to the attention of agents of the New Haven Office handling extremist matters.

UACB, no further investigation being conducted by New Haven in this matter.

ReBulet dated 4/19/72.

All appropriate sources of the Miami Office were alerted for any information concerning possible violence in connection with MALCOLM X's birthday.

The date of his birthday has passed and no information was received that any individual or organization planned violence in connection with his birthday.

Also, no violence took place in the Miami area concerning MALCOLM X's birthday.

Baltimore, Maryland
June 21, 1972

On May 21, 1972, [BUREAU DELETION] advised that the members of the Ujamma Shop, Soul School, Black United Front, and Black Student Union, all from Baltimore, Maryland presented a Malcolm X festival at old Polytech, located at North Avenue and Calvert Streets on May 19, 1972. The admission fee was $1.50 for students, $2.00 for adults. About five hundred people attended in spite of the rain. The affair was given to help raise money for the expenses of the African Liberation Demonstration Day march in Washington, D.C.

[BUREAU DELETION] advised that members of the Ujamma Shop, Soul School, and other brothers presented a play showing how the black man was exploited by the white slavemaster throughout civilization. The white man came to Africa, killed, raped, and robbed the black man of his land and possessions. He then brought them into bondage to America. These same problems went on until the black man was so called “freed” after the Civil War. This so-called freedom turned into a political and economical stage where the white man still controlled the life of the black brother. Next the black man is forced to go to war to fight a man who has done him no harm. When the black brother reaches the war zone he finds that the man who he has been told to fight calls him brother. Then the black brother returns home to find out that the white man has enslaved his brothers and sisters by filling the community with dope. The black brothers should form a force and kill the white dope peddler and clean up [their] community.

There was a group of singers call the “Vandals” who the audience liked very much. The Super Simba Boot dancers of New Jersey performed African military marches directed by a leader, who spoke Swahili.

The main speaker was OWUSU SADAUKAI (master teacher) from Malcolm X University. He informed the audience it was “nation” time and all black brothers must march in the African Liberation Demonstration in Washington, D.C. The purpose of
the march is to protest the exploitation of the blacks by white nations. SADAUKAI stated that he fought . . . with black brothers and sisters and saw that most of the military equipment came from America. America has raised corporations and has billions of dollars invested in the lands of Africa and do[es] not wish to see the black man free to own his own land because it would bankrupt [its] holdings. All of the persons attending the festival were invited to attend the celebration of Malcolm X's birthday to be held at Druid Hill Park, Sunday, May 21, 1972.

On May 22, 1972, [BUREAU DELETION] advised that no information came to the attention of [BUREAU DELETION] concerning any incidents which arose out of the Malcolm X festival which was held in Baltimore on May 19-21, 1972.

May 29, 1980

Mr. William H. Webster
Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

J. Edgar Hoover Building

10th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D. C. 20535

Dear Mr. Webster:

I have recently received a petition signed by many of my constituents who are urging a new investigation into the assassination of Al-Hajji [
sic
] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X). A copy of the petition is enclosed.

According to the petition, new evidence has come to light which identifies all of the persons involved in the assassination and exonerates two of the three men convicted of the crime. In consequence, my constituents urge a new investigation of the assassination.

I would respectfully request that the FBI look into the statements
made in the petition and inform me of its findings. I also would like to know if the FBI is currently conducting, or planning to conduct, a new investigation in the assassination of Al-Hajji [
sic
] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X).

In advance, I appreciate your attention to this matter.

With kind personal regards.

Sincerely,
(signed)
William J. Hughes
Member of Congress

WJH:emr
Enclosure

The undersigned citizens of the United States respectfully request that you use your best efforts to have the Congress investigate the assassination of Al-Hajji [
sic
] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) on February 21, 1965. We understand that there is new evidence identifying all of the persons involved in the assassination and exonerating two of the three men convicted of the crime, namely Muhammad Abdel Aziz (Norman 3X Butler), and Khalil Islam (Thomas 15X Johnson), and that this material has already been furnished to you. The House Committee on Assassinations investigated only the deaths of John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In view of the new evidence relating to the killing of Al-Hajji [
sic
] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), it is high time that a thorough investigation of his death took place so that two innocent men, who have already spent more than fourteen (14) years in jail, can win their freedom.