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meet with me on that Thursday.
We met, just the two of us,
on February 18, 1965, in his
small office on the second
floor of the Ho el Theresa, at
125 Street and Seventh
Avenue (now Adam Clayton
Po IIlr. Boulevard). Mal­
colm spo e softly and
deliverately. It if the
time h d come for him to put
so e things on the record.
Three days later, Malcolm
X, t the age of 39, was shot to
d th at Harlem r Uy of his
upporters.
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"I have no feud with the
COI'- BI c Mu lims, ire This i a
one- ided t mg. Those that _
have done violence are
ti «) think they are
&w.1�;n to :.... d ,. will of God CD
:" : .. ,�YID�m8imandcripple
. t ' left the movement."
t-· ose 0 left 'e move-
meat, Malcolm continued,
"have not been involved in
. violence against those within,"
dding: ·1 believe in taking ac­
tion, bot not action against
Black people. No, sir,"
Wb t bout the comments
id they he w by people' Harlem that-no
any things that d him a they do not know where Mal-
dangerous man to the move- I colm X stands? Is it possible to
me t." C . e so suddenly?
�ut I didn't want to harm' . He smiled, opened his
black suit jacket, and began
. rubbing his fingers along the
black ' ter est be wore un-
derneath.
"1 won't deny 1 don't know
here I'm at, - he said with a .
boyish grin. "But by the ame
token ho many of us put the
finger down on one point and
ay I'm here."
"1 know that I'm �OOO p r
cent against the Ku Klux Klan,
the Rockwells nd any or­
ganized white groups that are
agains the Black people in
this country, II he s id, in
reference to L' coln Rockwell,
leader of e azi party in the
United States, and such
groups the Citizens Council.
Then assessing his present
situation, he ob erved:
"I feel like man who has
been asleep omewhat and
under someone else's control.
I feel hat I'm inking and
, . ng no i or myself.
Bef re, it a for and hy the
guidance of Elijah uharn­
mad. 0 I think with my own
mind it."
eethe
ith the