○  malcolm x: message to the grass roots  ○

now how many thousands of dollars. [he] come [sic] to detroit and had a march and raised some more thousands of dollars. and recall, right after that [roy] wilkins attacked king, accused king and the core [congress of racial equality] of starting trouble everywhere and then making the naacp [national association for the advancement of colored people] get them out of jail and spend a lot of money; and then they accused king and core of raising all the money and not paying it back. this happened; i've got it in documented evidence in the newspaper. roy started attacking king, and king started attacking roy, and farmer started attacking both of them. and as these negroes of national stature began to attack each other, they began to lose their control of the negro masses.

and negroes was [sic] out there in the streets. they was [sic] talking about [how] we was [sic] going to march on washington. by the way, right at that time birmingham had exploded, and the negroes in birmingham -- remember, they also exploded. they began to stab the crackers in the back and bust them up 'side their head -- yes, they did. that's when kennedy sent in the troops, down in birmingham. so, and right after that, kennedy got on the television and said "this is a moral issue." that's when he said he was going to put out a civil-rights bill. and when he mentioned civil-rights bill and the southern crackers started talking about [how] they were going to boycott or filibuster it, then the negroes started talking -- about what? we're going to march on washington, march on the senate, march on the white house, march on the congress, and tie it up, bring it to a halt; don't let the government proceed. they even said they was [sic] going out to the airport and lay down on the runway and don't let no airplanes land. i'm telling you what they said. that was revolution. that was revolution. that was the black revolution.

it was the grass roots out there in the street. [it] scared the white m

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