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malcolm x remembered
by Preston Peet (ptpeet@cs.com) - March 11, 2001

Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) was shot three years before Martin Luther King Jr., yet the pattern is similar in the way that they both had shifted their gaze from their originally narrow focus on civil rights for blacks, expanding to a later broader view, seeking equal rights for all the disaffected in America. They wanted to influence the status quo as a whole. At that point they became more than a nuisance. They became a threat.

And that won't do.

The week before his murder on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X's house had been fire-bombed, with him and his family inside. At first he came out publicly blaming Black Muslims, saying that they were angry over his split with Elijah Muhammad, and the Nation of Islam.

Then in the following week leading up to his death, by some reports Malcolm X said that the harassment had gotten too big for any organization of blacks to accomplish on it's own, that it had to be somebody else, though he did not specify who.

When the first uniformed police arrived outside of the Audubon Ballroom after the shooting, two men were reportedly rescued from the crowd that had chased them from the building. The cops apparently, according to the New York Herald Tribune early morning edition (Monday, February 22, 1965) saw two men being beaten by a large crowd outside of the ballroom, and pulled them away to safety. Quickly placing them under arrest, they took the two men away. One of the men was later convicted for his part in the slaying, but the other man had disappeared from the press accounts by that evening. No more was heard about this mystery suspect at all throughout the whole subsequent trial (Breitman, Porter and Smith, 52).

Who was this man? Was he a police provocateur, as was certainly not unusual at that time? To this day the police utilize informants, and undercover officers that will assist the criminals commit crimes, to help bust bad guys and put them away.

In the early 1970s, three black activists, and a Quebecois were arrested and charged with "conspiring to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, and the Liberty Bell."

Ray Wood, who provided the information needed to secure a conviction against the four Defendants, turned them in. It turned out that Wood, a black undercover officer in the New York City Bureau of Special Services, had done most of the planning for the bombing plot. While the four were convicted, Wood was decorated by the New York Police Department, as noted in The Assassination of Malcolm X by Breitman, Porter and Smith.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Chief J. Edgar Hoover was rabidly anti-civil rights, and did every thing in his power to not cooperate with civil rights murder investigations. The FBI was more interested in investigating the activists themselves, rather than their attackers. The FBI started the secret anti-American Counter-intelligence Program (dubbed'COINTELPRO) in 1956, as a domestic counterinsurgency measure to keep tabs on dissidents within the US, and to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalists, hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, membership, and supporters."

One FBI memo dated August 25, 1967, told agents that "no opportunity should be missed to exploit through counterintelligence techniques the organizational and personal conflicts of the leadership of the groups and where possible an effort should be made to capitalize upon existing conflicts between competing black nationalist organizations."

Who really killed Malcolm X, and why?

Bibliography:

George Breitman, Herman Porter and Baxter Smith. The Assassination of Malcolm X. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1991 [1976].

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Here is a breakdown of Alex Haley's book Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Betty Shabazz
Here is the bio of Dr. Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, along with many links to other Shabazz dedicated Web sites and articles.

From Malcolm X to El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz: The Transformation of Malcolm X
This is a look at how Malcolm X completely changed his fundamental belief system towards the end of his life, after a pilgrimage to Mecca. While there, he had revised his views on race, and returned to the US preaching unity and seeking social justice for everyone, rather than the hatred and separation of the races promoted by Elijah Mohammed, his former guru. This may have gotten him killed. What is it that the powers-that-be fear in peace? Why does it scare them so much?

Malcolm X Links and Other Related Topics
All kinds of different sites to go to from here, on Malcolm X, and other African-American issues.

Malcolm X Auction: Hot Stuff
The diary of Malcolm X, bloody and shot full of holes, which had been in his pocket when he was shot in Harlem, had been scheduled to go on auction, but The Smoking Gun, an online document service, exposed the fact that the diary had been stolen from the public archives where it was being kept, along with lots of other Malcolm X assassination evidence.

My Journey to Islam
This is an adaptation of the pamphlet Malcolm X: Why I Embraced Islam, by Yusef Siddiqui.

FBI Probe Purloined X Files
This Village Voice report (July 21, 1999) on the stolen diary of Malcolm X that was to be sold through an Internet auction in May 1999.

Feds Set Up Daughter of Malcolm X in Farrakhan Assassination Plot
First the Feds apparently set up Qubilah Shabezz, Malcolm X's daughter, in a plot to kill Louis Farrakhan which is discussed in this article. Then Qubilah's son burned Malcolm X's widow to death. This family has suffered way more than its fair share of pain and disaster, a lot of it orchestrated by 'officials' of the law, and government.

Malcolm X
This short bio on Malcolm X pushes the Black Muslims-did-him-in theory, as though it were an established fact.

Info on Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Straight-forward bios of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm X: Our Shining Black Prince
Another look at the life of Malcolm X.

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
This is a group of people calling themselves New Africans: ready and willing to fight for "national independence as a human right, and a solution to our colonization." They say they are "committed to the protracted struggle for the liberation of the New African Nation. By Any Means Necessary," which they take special pains to stress. Keep an open mind!

Malcolm X News
Here's a slightly different look at Malcolm X, his life and poems about him.

Malcolm X's Life and Death
This is a fairly comprehensive bibliography of books on Malcolm X, his life and death.

Farrakhan Taps Malcolm X Killer
Louis Farrakhan, who Betty Shabazz always insisted had a part in her husband's death, appointed in March 1998 one of the convicted killers of Malcolm X to head the same Muslim Temple in Harlem once run by Malcolm X himself.

Power Through Assassination
This is a take on assassinations in the US, focusing mainly on the 1960s. Only a brief mention of Malcolm X, but he is included in this list of influential Americans who were killed by a secret group intent on ruling America, one way or another. Apparently, some think he was enough of a threat to the status quo to warrant killing.

Cosmic Baseball Association: Malcolm X
This site uses 'so-called' a lot, as in 'so called white man' or the 'so called Civil Right Movement'. It completely ignores the conversion to true Islam that Malcolm X went through at the end of his life, and the racial unity he had begun to preach, completely denigrating the previous statements of ignorance and hate that he had let himself be blinded by. Ignorance of the past sucks!

The Man
Yet another biography of Malcolm X, going over the same points again.

Black Muslims
Encyclopedia.com presents a short look at Black Muslims, Elijah Mohammed and Malcolm X.

Malcolm X Revisited
This is a 1996 review of a documentary, Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X, examining the assassination and subsequent cover-up.

Muslim Students Celebrate Black History Month
This is a review of a lecture given in March 1999 on The Legacy of Malcolm X.

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