Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Malcolm X: 42 years later...
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was gunned down in Harlem at the age of 39.
Malcolm sez: “If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
(from a November 1963 speech in New York City)
A 1964 speech.
After being shot several times inside the Audubon Ballroom, he was pronounced dead on arrival at Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
MLK’s press conference about Malcolm’s death.
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