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318 “Nobody listens to that Malcolm anymore.” Ali’s traveling retinue included Herbert Muhammad. See “Cassius Without His Lip,” Ghanaian Times, May 18, 1964; “Muhammad Ali Meets His Hero (Nkrumah),” Ghanaian Times, May 19, 1964; and Lloyd Garrison, “Clay Makes Malcolm Ex-Friend,” New York Times, May 18, 1964.
318 “by their racial origin from being regarded as human liberators.” H. M. Basner, “Malcolm X and the Martyrdom of Rev. Clayton Hewett,” Ghanaian Times, May 18, 1964.
318 “white worker in America than he has in South Africa.ʺ Julian Mayfield, “Basner Misses Malcolm Xʹs Point,” Ghanaian Times, May 19, 1964.
318 “objective, could have appeared attacking Nkrumah.” Leslie A. Lacy, “African Responses to Malcolm X,ʺ in LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, eds., Black Fire (New York: William Morrow, 1968), pp. 32-38.
318 to Africa “philosophically and culturally.” Malcolm X to Muslim Mosque, Inc., May 11, 1964, MXC-S, box 13, folder 2.
319 and he prayed with many others. Travel Diaries, May 18, 1964, MXC-S, box 5, folder 13.
319 “Black Muslims, and thirsting for faster ‘progress.’” Ibid.
319 appear at a trial to respond to a speeding ticket. Travel Diaries, May 19, 1964, ibid.; Malcolm Xʹs Itinerary, MXC-S, box 13, folder 7; “Warrant Issued for Malcolm X,ʺ Chicago Daily News, May 19, 1964; “Order Arrest of Brother Malcolm,” Chicago Defender, May 21, 1964; and “Warrant for Malcolm as Speeder to Be Issued,” New York Times, May 20, 1964. The charge against Malcolm was that he was driving fifty-five miles per hour in a forty-mile-per-hour zone on the Triborough Bridge in New York City on March 6, 1964.
319 “different races and colors who treated me as a human being.” Travel Diaries, May 21, 1964, MXC-S, box 5, folder 13; Malcolm Xʹs Itinerary, MXC-S, box 13, folder 7; MX FBI, Summary Report, New York Office, January 20, 1965, p. 90; “Malcolm X Makes It In from Mecca,” Chicago Defender, May 25, 1964; “Malcolm Says He Is Backed Abroad,” New York Times, May 22, 1964; and “‘My Next Move’—Malcolm X: An Exclusive Interview,” Amsterdam News, May 30, 1964.
320 “dark blue suits, white shirts and distinctive red or grey bow ties.” “Malcolm Says He Is Backed Abroad,” New York Times, May 22, 1964.
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321 brothers “to be careful of the NOI.ʺ FBI—MMI, Memo, New York Office, March 26, 1964.
322 membership in the Jack and Jill organization. “Lynn Shifflett in ‘Big Sister’ Contest,” Los Angeles Sentinel, April 28, 1955; “Marion DeMan Hosts Teenager Party,” Los Angeles Sentinel, August 25, 1955; “Jack, Jill Conference First for Teen-Agers,” Los Angeles Sentinel, September 1, 1955; and “Founders Day Noted by Sigma Gamma Rho,” Los Angeles Sentinel, December 27, 1956.
322 funds for Freedom Riders in the South. “The Guest Corner,” Los Angeles Sentinel, July 11, 1957; “College Girl Relates African Experiences,” Los Angeles Sentinel, November 13, 1958; “Photo of Shifflett,” Los Angeles Sentinel, April 30, 1959; “Photo of Shifflett,” Los Angeles Sentinel, October 22, 1959; and “Photo of Shifflett,” Los Angeles Sentinel, July 6, 1961.
322 “white people would also begin to feel the effects of this.” Peter Bailey interview, September 4, 1968, Manuscript Division, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Library.
322 “And don’t ask no questions, just be there.” Peter Bailey interview, June 20, 2003.
323 “relaxed and he laughed and he’d joke.” Peter Bailey interview, September 4, 1968.
323 weeks prior to Malcolm’s break with the Nation. Peter Bailey interview, June 20, 2003.
323 “anything that Malcolm did,” Ferguson said. Herman Ferguson interview, June 24, 2004.
324 evidently the sacrifice made sense to her. Ibid.
324 the Nation of Islam would never readmit him. DeCaro, On the Side of My People, pp. 199-200.
325 “change black pathology into another religion.” “A Conversation with Ossie Davis,” Souls, vol. 2, no. 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 6-16; quotation,