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193 “think this will accomplish anything,” he declared. Harold L. Keith, “Leaders Bury Differences, Merge: New York Group Formed to Uplift Negro Masses,” Pittsburgh Courier , October 7, 1961.
193 name, in parentheses, was written “Malik el Shabazz.” Evelyn Cunningham, “Panel Will Continue; Malcolm X and Randolph Spark Rally in Harlem,” Pittsburgh Courier, September 16, 1961.
194 “blond hair, and he has a white skin.” FBI—Gravitt, Summary Report, New York Office, January 23, 1962.
194 at the top of the command structure. FBI—Raymond X Sharrieff file, Summary Report, Chicago Office, February 8, 1962, and August 8, 1962.
194 cash register, and resentment began to grow. James 67X Warden interview, June 18, 2003.
194 “making jokes about sexual nonperformance.” Ibid.
195 local captains directly responsible to Malcolm. Clegg, An Original Man, pp. 113, 181. Goldman directly disputes Clegg on this issue. According to Goldman, “A 1961 administrative decree had made the temple captains answerable only to Chicago.” See Goldman, The Death and Life of Malcolm X, p. 110.
195 that would have meant for Sharrieff’s continued authority. FBI—Gravitt, Summary Report, New York Office, January 11, 1963.
195 “among the masses they would lead to a black Utopia.” DeCaro, On the Side of My People, p. 177.
196 of whom 737 were defined as active. Secretary’s Account of Records, Mosque No. 7. Copy in possession of author.
196 “Everybody got a story.” James 67X Warden interview, July 24, 2007.
196 at a Seventh Avenue nightclub. FBI—Charles 37X Morris (also known as Charles Kenyatta) file, Correlation Summary, New York Office, August 4, 2006; FBI—Morris, Memo, Washington Office, November 6, 1968; and FBI—Morris, Memo, New York Office to the Director, March 13, 1968.
196 was discharged on September 13, 1946. FBI—Morris, Memo, New York Office, March 13, 1968.
196 where the latter was assistant minister. Ibid.; and Charles Kenyatta, Oral History Interview, 1970, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University Library.
197 “mixed type, mildly depressed but cooperative.” FBI—Morris, Memo, New York Office, March 13, 1968.
197 he described as a “really beautiful childhood.” Mark Jacobson, “The Man Who Didn’t Shoot Malcolm X,ʺ New York, October 1, 2007, p. 41.
197 he was sentenced to twelve months in prison. Ibid., p. 40.
197 “rescue, bring relief or salvation.” John L. Esposito, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 138.
197 adhered rigidly to Muslim dietary laws. Jacobson, pp. 40-41.
197 “I would be the first one on the scene.” Thomas 15X Johnson (also known as Khalil Islam) interview, September 29, 2004.
198 that had also fascinated Frantz Fanon. Ibid.
198 “grow to be hated when you become well known.” Malcolm X and Haley, Autobiography, p. 270.
199 greatly inflated image of his party’s actual number. See William H. Schmaltz, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party (Washington, D.C.: Batsford Brassey, 1999).
199 “and admirable human beings in spite of their color.” On the connections between the American Nazi Party and the Nation of Islam, see Clegg, An Original Man, pp. 152-56; and Schmaltz, Hate, pp. 119-20.
199 and the races dwelled in separate states. Clegg, An Original Man, pp. 154-55.
200 “You got the biggest hand you ever got.” Schmaltz, Hate, pp. 120-21; and “Separation—or Death: Muslim Watchword,” Amsterdam News, July 1, 1961.
200 “its mishandling of the Black Man.” George Lincoln Rockwell, “The Jew: Moment of Lies in the South,” The Rockwell Report, January 3, 1962.
201 “Muhammad is right—separation or death!” Schmaltz, Hate, pp. 133-34; and “U.S. Nazi Boss Among 3,000 at Rally,” Chicago Tribune, February 26, 1962.
201 “Muhammad used to scare blacks into the NOI.ʺ Clegg, An Original Man, p. 154.
201 “be separated to get justice and freedom.” “Rockwell and Co.—They Speak for All White,