Malcolm X_ A Life of Reinvention - Manning Marable [334]
115 “the other dog in the streets.” MX FBI, Summary Report, New York Office, January 31, 1956, p. 18.
115 “whether you want to survive the war of Armageddon.” Ibid., pp. 6-7.
116 “to frighten the black men who are still dead.” Ibid., p. 7.
116 “very wrong that sisters are not coming in.” Ibid., p. 10.
116 “who has any chance to save himself.” Ibid., p. 22.
116 “so if you are not white you must be black.” Ibid., p. 11.
117 “many members . . . as he possibly can.” Ibid., pp. 33-34.
117 commitment to the international Islamic community. See Yvonne Haddad and Jane Smith, Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993), pp. 49-78.
117 “Black Muslims” to describe the Nation of Islam. Ibid., p. 252.
117 “required precision and order of the service.” Frederick Mathewson Denny, An Introduction to Islam (New York: Macmillan, 1985), p. 105.
118 “intercessors between humans and God.” Ibid., p. 237.
118 generally have not participated in politics. Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought (London: I. B. Taurus, 1982), pp. 22, 26-27.
118 religious knowledge and truth over time. Ibid., p. 23.
118 but who also practices spiritual self-discipline. Dannin, Black Pilgrimage to Islam, pp. 274-75.
119 transnational conference of colored peoples in history. George McTurnan Kahin, The Asian-African Conference: Bandung, Indonesia, April 1955 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1956), p. 39.
120 decline and fall of European and U.S. power. Ibid., p. 81. See Liz Mazucci, “Going Back to Our Own: Interpreting Malcolm Xʹs Transition from ‘Black Asiatic’ to ‘Afro-American,’ ” Souls, vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 66-83.
120 “are united all over the world to fight the ‘devils.’ ” MX FBI, Memo, New York Office, May 23, 1955.
120 Pan-Africanism, Pan-Islam, and Third World liberation. Melani McAlister, “One Black Allah: The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955-1970,” American Quarterly, vol. 51, no. 3 (1999), p. 631.
121 because he was hardest on himself. James 67X Warden interview, July 24, 2007.
121 “late for an appointment. Malcolm was like a clock.” Farrakhan, “The Murder of Malcolm X and Its Effects on Black America.”
121 “lost-founds” was sufficient compensation. James 67X Warden interview, July 24, 2007.
122 “you would have gotten out of the temple.” MX FBI, Summary Report, New York Office, January 31, 1956, p. 10.
122 his self-destructive opposition to Elijah Muhammad. DeCaro, On the Side of My People, p. 88. DeCaro interviewed Jeremiah Shabazz in Philadelphia on May 17, 1993.
122 while both were serving time in prison. DeCaro, On the Side of My People, p. 109.
122 more than forty new converts had been won. Malcolm X and Haley, Autobiography, p. 226.
123 highly paid skilled workers and trade unionists. Ibid., p. 229.
123 “than in every place in the world.” MX FBI, Memo, New York Office to the Director, no date.
124 “the destruction of the ‘devil.’ ” Ibid.
124 he would be criticized on some point or other. Malcolm X and Haley, Autobiography, pp. 226-27.
125 Joseph’s advancement as the Nation’s supreme captain. Collins, Seventh Child, p. 137.
125 damaging rumor about Elijah Muhammad that was circulating. See Evanzz, The Judas Factor, pp. 184-85.
125 “or anything, because you should know better.” Transcript of audiotaped recording. Disciplinary trials supervised by Malcolm X at NOI Temple No. 7, Harlem, mid-September 1956. Audiotape provided by the Nation of Islam and Akbar Muhammad.
126 “good work for Allah and his Messenger in the Nation.” Ibid.
126 “all of those Muslims that follow him are outcasts.” Ibid.
126 to hold a job as a night cook at the temple’s restaurant. FBI—Gravitt, Memo, New York Office, December 12, 1956.
126 had been fully restored to his rank. FBI—Gravitt, Memo, New York Office, October 23, 1956.
126 whose members were working-class blacks. Collins,