Malcolm X (8 page)
Authors: Clayborne Carson
Sep 9, 1959 | At New York NOI meeting, reads a letter the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) sent to the New York Police Commissioner [FBI 11/17/59]. |
Sep 16, 1959 | Narrates movies of recent trip abroad at NOI meeting at Temple No. 25 in Newark, New Jersey [FBI 11/17/59]. |
August 22, 1959 | In “Pulse of the Public” column, |
March 3, 1960 | Debates William M. James on WMCA radio show called “Pro and Con”; the topic is: “Is Black Supremacy the Answer?” [FBI 11/17/59]. |
March 23, 1960 | Speaks at NOI meeting in New York [FBI 5/17/60]. |
July 1960 | Family moves to a seven-room house at 23â11 97th Street in East Elmhurst, Queens. |
AugustâOctober 1960 | According to FBI informants, allegedly forms nucleus of followers within NOI to take over after Elijah Muhammad's death; plans to run for public office “to obtain power for himself” [FBI 11/17/60]. |
September 21, 1960 | Claims to have spoken recently with Fidel Castro for thirty minutes at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem [FBI 11/17/60]. |
December 1960 | Says U.S. revolution is starting in Harlem and expresses admiration for Lenin and Stalin; predicts that Africans will be free with the assistance of the Russian army [FBI 11/17/60]. |
December 25, 1960 | Second daughter, Qubilah, is born. |
January 28, 1961 | Meets with Ku KIux Klan officials to solicit aid in obtaining land [FBI 11/17/60]. |
February 20, 1961 | Says NOI was not behind recent demonstrations at United Nations over the death of former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Congo [FBI 11/17/60]. |
March 24, 1961 | Debates Walter Carrington of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) at Harvard Law School forum entitled “The American Negro: Problems and Solutions” [FBI 11/17/60]. |
SeptemberâOctober 1961 | Visits Los Angeles [FBI 11/17/61]. |
October 16, 1961 | Appears on NBC television program “Open Mind” with Morroe Berger, Kenneth B. Clark, Richard Haley, and Constance B. Motley, with moderator Eric P. Goldman. The topic is “Where is the American Negro Headed?” |
November 21, 1961 | Dr. Harry Rivlin, acting president of City College of New York, announces that he has no objection to the Eugene V. Debs Club inviting MX to speak on campus. |
December 1961 | EM returns from tour of Muslim countries and issues directive that NOI temples shall now be called mosques. |
January 1962 | Delivers speech blasting Negro leadership to an overflowing crowd in Homes Hall at Los Angeles City College. |
February 15â16, 1962 | In Chicago, debates Bayard Rustin on the topic “Integration or Separation for the Black Man?” |
March 11, 1962 | New York Journal American |
April 27, 1962 | NOI member Ronald Stokes dies in police shooting; MX attempts to rally Negroes to protest killing [FBI 11/16/62]. |
May 1, 1962 | Attends a New York symposium sponsored by the Committee to Aid the Monroe Defendants. |
May 5, 1962 | Conducts funeral services for Stokes [FBI 11/16/62], |
May 10, 1962 | Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch |
May 17, 1962 | Tells |
May 20, 1962 | Speaks at protest rally at Park Manor Auditorium. Claims that socialists, communists, and liberals are joining to get rid of the common enemy with white skin [FBI 11/16/62]. |
June 6, 1962 | Los Angeles Herald-Examiner |
September 15, 1962 | Delivers impromtu address at outdoor rally in Harlem to protest police brutality. |
November 26, 1962 | Dora McDonald, secretary to Martin Luther King, Jr., informs MX that King refuses to debate him because “he has always considered his work in a positive action framework rather than engaging in consistent negative debate.” |
December 1962 | Delivers speech entitled “Black Man's History” at Mosque No. 7. |
1962 | Rumors of EM's adultery cause numerous Muslims to leave Chicago Mosque No. 2; MX talks to three of EM's former secretaries, all of whom have had children by EM. MX learns that EM's son Herbert has been instructing “Muhammad Speaks” writers to feature MX as little as possible. |
January 1, 1963 | Speaks at New York Mosque No. 7 dinner program, “A Night with the FOI,” which includes music, exhibits, drills, and special demonstrations by the FOI. |
January 30, 1963 | Speaks at Hi-Fi Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina [FBI 3/13/63]. |
FebruaryâApril 1963 | Feelings of resentment and animosity develop between MX and EM's family [FBI 11/16/62]. |
February 3, 1963 | In an interview at WMAL in Washington, D.C., MX states that EM does not advocate overthrow of the government. Says FBI goes beyond its duty in “religious suppression” of Muslims [FBI airtel 2/04/63]. |
February 4, 1963 | States during WMAL program that “the FBI spends twenty-four hours a day infiltrating or trying to infiltrate Muslims” [FBI 2/04/63]. |
February 26, 1963 | Takes control of NOI Convention in Chicago. FBI claims that EM's family resents MX's alleged statements against EM and his family and his attempts to advise the family [FBI 11/16/62]. |
March 10, 1963 | Returns to New York from Chicago on orders from EM. [FBI 11/16/62]. |
April 1963 | Flies to Phoenix, Arizona, to meet with EM at EM's home |
AprilâOctober 1963 | Serves as Interim Minister of the NOI in Washington, D.C. [FBI 11/15/63]. |
May 1963 | Writes apologetic letter to EM telling him they should work together and not be divided [FBI 11/15/63]. |
May 1963 | Interviewed by James Baldwin on television. |
May 12, 1963 | Speaks to audience of four hundred at radio station WUST in Washington, D.C. May 13 |
May 17, 1963 | New York Times |
May 25, 1963 | New York Amsterdam News |
June 7, 1963 | Blasts Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty in “Muhammad Speaks” article and charges Los Angeles with operating a “Ku Klux Klan police force” that uses Gestapo tactics against the black community and Muslim religious groups. |
June 13, 1963 | EM instructs MX not to assist the NAACP or any other Negro organization in civil rights demonstrations [FBI 11/15/63]. |
June 1963 | Adam Clayton Powell invites MX to speak at Abyssinian Baptist Church; delivers speech entitled “The Black Revolution.” |
August 17, 1963 | Announces at NOI Bazaar in Boston Arena that EM and the NOI are not supporting or participating in the March on Washington [FBI 11/15/63]. |
August 19, 1963 | Informs audience at FOI meeting at Mosque Number No. 7 in New York that NOI members who participate in March on Washington will be given ninety days to leave the mosque [FBI 11/15/63]. |
August 26, 1963 | Replaced as head of NOI in Philadelphia [FBI 11/15/63]. |
August 27, 1963 | Tells a reporter that “well, whatever black folks do, maybe I don't agree with it, but I'm going to be there [at the March on Washington], brother, âcause that's where I belong.” |
August 28, 1963 | Attends March on Washington as a critical observer; comments that he can't understand why Negroes should become so excited about a demonstration “run by whites in front of a statue of a president who has been dead for a hundred years and who didn't like us when he was alive.” |
September 1963 | Speaks at rally organized by Jackie Robinson. |
Fall 1963 | Delivers speech in Philadelphia entitled “The Old Negro and the New Negro.” |
November 7, 1963 | Speaks at the City College of New York. |
November 10, 1963 | Delivers “A Message from the Grass Roots” in Detroit at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference. |
November 22, 1963 | President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas. |
December 1, 1963 | States at NOI rally in New York that JFK “never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon,” despite a directive from Elijah Muhammad that no Muslim minister comment on the assassination [FBI 12/6/63]. |
December 4, 1963 | EM suspends MX from NOI for commenting on the death of President Kennedy [FBI 12/6/63]. |
January 2, 1964 | EM, MX, and two unnamed individuals have a conversation during which they speak at length about recent developments [FBI 1/23/64]. |
January 6, 1964 | Summoned to Phoenix for a secret preliminary hearing with Elijah Muhammad, John Ali, and Raymond Sharrieff; rumors circulate in Harlem that Malcolm has been not only suspended but also “isolated,” which means that all Muslims are forbidden to speak to him. |
January 14, 1964 | Meets with Alex Haley (writer for |
January 15, 1964 | During visit with Cassius Clay at his fight camp in Miami, MX tells sports reporters that he will be reinstated with the NOI in ninety days, although he believes the case to be otherwise. |
January 21, 1964 | Returns to New York from week's vacation with family at Cassius Clay's home in Miami, Florida: Does not attend dinner sponsored by the FOI and MGT of Mosque No. 7 in New York; relaxes in Queens and works on a book about NOI [FBI airtel 1/21/64]. Has not publicly engaged in any NOI activity since being suspended by EM from NOI. |
February 4, 1964 | States that Bayard Rustin is “nothing but a homosexual” [FBI 2/5/64]. |
February 10, 1964 | Rift between MX and EM appears to be widening [FBI 2/10/64]. |
February 27, 1964 | Allegedly leaves Hampton House in Miami but intends to return in March; says, “If you think Cassius Clay was loud, wait until I start talking in March” [FBI airtel 3/3/64]. |
February 1964 | Former assistant to Malcolm at Mosque No. 7 informs him that he has been asked by a mosque official to wire MX's car with a bomb. |
March 6, 1964 | Summons issued to MX for speeding on Triborough Bridge [FBI 5/19/64}. |
March 8, 1964 | New York Times |
March 9, 1964 | Meeting between MX, E. Grant, and J. Warden to discuss incorporation of MMI (Muslim Mosque, Incorporated). Informant reports that EM has ordered MX to surrender his home and car, both of which are owned by the NOI [FBI airtel 3/12/64]. Appears on “The World At Ten” from 10:00-10:30 |
