Malcolm X_ A Life of Reinvention - Manning Marable [341]
173 to “fish” Castro, inviting him to join the NOI. “Fidel Castro,” in Jenkins, ed., Malcolm X Encyclopedia, p. 144.
173 visit Cuba, but made no commitments. Carlos Moore, Castro, the Blacks, and Africa (Los Angeles: University of California Center for Afro-American Studies, 1988), p. 120.
173 “event of any anti-Castro demonstrations.” MX FBI, Correlation Summary, New York Office, August 22, 1961, p. 27.
173 about the meeting between Malcolm and Castro. Moore, Castro, the Blacks, and Africa, p. 120.
173 like Raymond and Ethel Sharrieff. Ibid., p. 162.
173 “and Muhammad might do it to save face.” MX FBI, Summary Report, New York Office, November 17, 1959, p. 9.
174 semiautonomy and flexibility that he himself enjoyed. The December 1961 issue of Muhammad Speaks raised Wallace’s refusal “to answer an army draft call because all preachers, priests, ministers and rabbis have been exempt from military duty.” Wallace’s conviction and imprisonment, like that of his father during the 1940s, was “for teaching the religion of Islam!” See “Courts Jail Muslim Ministers; Taught Negroes in Faith of Islam Religion!” Muhammad Speaks, December 1961.
174 “what the people were saying and correct me.” Louis Farrakhan interview, December 27, 2007.
175 that Malcolm would sacrifice to his loyalty to the Nation. Ibid.
176 coordinators caved in and “disinvited” him. Corbado and Weise, eds., Time on Two Crosses, pp. 164-65.
176 student protests at City University of New York. Rosenberg, “Davis, Benjamin J., Jr.,” in Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of African American History, pp. 14-15.
176 asserting Elijah Muhammad was “not a politician.” Corbado and Weise, eds., Time on Two Crosses, pp. 165-66.
177 “to go, they’re going to want to stay.” Ibid., pp. 168-71.
177 publicized police brutality cases in the state. Evers-Williams and Marable, eds., The Autobiography of Medgar Evers, pp. 181-82.
178 desegregationist protesters into the Deep South. Manning Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007), p. 62.
178 meetings in Tampa, Miami, and Jacksonville. MX FBI, Summary Report, New York Office, May 17, 1961, pp. 5-8.
178 to participate in local NOI meetings. MX FBI, Summary Report, New York Office, May 17, 1961, p. 6.
178 “traitors who assisted integration leaders.” Ibid., p. 19.
179 publicly admit his role until years later. DeCaro, On the Side of My People, pp. 180-81.
179 Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton. Gardell, In the Name of Elijah Muhammad , p. 273.
179 “movement, using the Negro as a tool.” MX FBI, Summary Report, New York Office, May 17, 1961, pp. 5-19.
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180 of her birth father, Shelman Sandlin. Rickford, Betty Shabazz, pp. 1, 105.
180 he even stuffed forty dollars into the envelope. Malik Shabazz to Mrs. Malik Shabazz, January 25, 1961, MXC-S, box 3, folder 2.
181 “It looks like she will have to be put down.” Evanzz, The Messenger, p. 211.
181 in Lynwood, California, on March 30, 1960. Stanley G. Robertson, “Paternity Charge Faces Muhammad: It’s Denied,” Los Angeles Sentinel, July 9, 1964; “Ex-Sweetheart of Malcolm X Accuses Elijah,” Amsterdam News, July 11, 1964; and Evanzz, The Messenger , p. 218.
181 for him to get what he wanted from them. Evanzz, The Messenger, pp. 238-39.
182 “I’m sick of being treated like a dog.” Ibid., pp. 215-17.
182 “under control in his own household.” Ibid., p. 218.
182 “obtain policy and future plans of Muhammad.” Ibid., pp. 218-19.
183 take long for the new arrangement to sour. Ibid., pp. 238-39, 248.
183 but neither was formally charged. Ibid., pp. 248-49.
184 “into a ‘diplomatic withdrawalʹ of his earlier statement.” “Malcolm X Rips JFK Advisor,” Pittsburgh Courier, February 4, 1961; Robert James Branham, “‘I Was Gone on Debatingʹ: Malcolm Xʹs Prison