- It's all right, it's all right. - They keep calling.
Just take the babies and put them into bed.
- Babies, let's go to bed. - Come on.
- Go on. - Goodnight, Mommy. Goodnight, Daddy.
- Nightie night. - Goodnight. - Goodnight.
Brother minister, I have to level with you.
They gave me a mission, but I couldn't do it.
- I love you. - What kind of mission?
To wire your car so it would explode when you turned the ignition.
The ministers say you're spreading untrues about Mr. Muhammad.
The ministers say that you're the greatest hypocrite, a Judas.
The ministers say that yourtongue should be cutout...
..and delivered to Mr. Muhammad's doorstep. -And what do you say?
- I'm with you. - You'll be marked for death. - Yes, sir.
Let me die then.
- I can't come between you and yourfather. -You're my father.
Go on home and don't come back. That's an order.
Yes, sir.
Because 1964 threatens to be an explosive year...
..I have called this press conference to clarify my position.
Internal differences in the nation oflslam have forced me out of it.
In the past I thought the thoughts and I spoke the words...
..of the honorable Elijah Muhammad.
That is over. From now on I speak my own words and think my own thoughts.
I intend to use a more flexible approach...
..towards working with others to get a solution to this problem.
I am not outto fight other leaders. I have forgotten every bad thing...
..leaders have said about me and I pray they will do the same.
We must work together to find a common solution.
I will organize a new mosque in New York City known as Muslim Mosque Inc.
This gives us the religious base and the spiritual force...
..to rid our people of the vices that destroy our moral fiber.
We want to control the politics of ourcommunity.
We will remain wide open for ideas and financial aid from all quarters.
Whites can help us, but they can't join us.
There can be no black-white unity...
..until there is first black unity.
We cannot unite with others until we unite amongstourselves.
In my desire to fully understand the religion oflslam...
..as practiced by 750 million Muslims around the world...
..I intend to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
This is a duty of every Muslim who is able to go at least once in his life.
- I am Egyptian. And you? - American.
- What's your name? - Malcolm.
I want one of those.
- How much? - 20 Egyptian pounds. - For one? - Yes. Special price!
- A special price for me? - Yes, tourist. -Thank you.
Come.
- What's your name? - Mohammed. - I'm Malcolm.
- Malcolm X. And you? - Jamal. -All right, Jamal.
- I'm from Harlem, from the United States. - 'Harim?'
- No, not'Harim'. Harlem. - Can you show me around? - Hashish?
- No, no hashish. - Hashish is good.
- Take me to the pyramids. - Hey, Pyramids! - No, the pyramids.
- No, no... - Pyramids? - Pyramids.
- Are you going to take me? - Yes! - Sphinx?
- Sphinx. - Ah, Sphinx and pyramids!
There!
The pyramids!
'My darling Betty...'
'..everywhere I go I am a representative of our people.'
'Ourstruggle is known and respected worldwide.'
'Two white men follow me everywhere, I wonder who they're working for.'
'I'd say the ClA. What's yourguess?'
'Today I arrived in Arabia. I have neverwitnessed...'
'..such sincere hospitality and true brotherhood...'
'..as practiced here, in the ancient home of Abraham...'
'..Mohammed and the great prophets of the scriptures.'
'Today, with thousands of others...'
'..I proclaimed God's greatness in the sacred city ofMecca.'
'I made my seven circuits around the Ka'ba...'
'..I drank from the well of Zem Zem, I prayed to Allah from Mount Arafat.'
'It was the only time that I stood before the creatorof all...'
'..and felt like a complete human being.'
'I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass...'
'..and prayed to the same God with Muslims whose eyes were blue...'
'..whose hairwas blond and whose skin was the whitest of white.'
'We were all brothers...'
'..people of all colors and races believing in one humanity.'
'Here I have a greater insight into what is happening in America.'
'The American negro cannot be blamed for his animosity. He is reacting...'
'..to 400 years of oppression and discrimination.'
'I believe the young generation will see the handwriting on the wall...'
'..and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of the truth...'
'..the only way left to ward off the disasterthat racism leads to.'
'Once before in prison the truth came and blinded me.'
'Well, it has happened again.'
'In the past I made sweeping indictments of all white people...'
'..causing injury to some white folks who did not deserve it.'
'Because of the spiritual rebirth which I was blessed to undergo...'
'..as a result of my pilgrimage...'
'..I no longersubscribe to sweeping indictments of one race.'
'I intend to be very careful not to sentence anyone...'
'..who has not been proven guilty.'
'I am not a racist and I do not subscribe to the tenants of racism.'
'In all honesty it can be stated that I wish nothing but freedom...'
'..justice and equality...'
'..life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.'
'My first concern is with the group to which I belong...'
'..for we are deprived of our inalienable rights.'
'But the true practice of lslam can remove the cancerof racism...'
'..from the hearts and the souls of all Americans.'
'lfl can die having exposed any meaningful truth...'
'..that will help destroy this disease...'
'..then all the credit is due to Allah...'
'..and only the mistakes have been mine.'
'Give all my love to the children. I love you dearly.'
'Sincerely, El-Haji Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm X.'
You said on yourtrip that you sensed a feeling of great brotherhood.
When I was in Mecca making the pilgrimage, brotherhood...
..existed among all people, all races and all levels of people.
What lslam had done forthose people...
..despite theircomplexion differences.
If people here in America practiced and studied lslam...
..it might help to erase the plague of racism here.
Muslims overthere look at themselves as human beings...
..as part of the same human family.
Today my friends are black, red, yellow, brown and white.
Are you prepared to go to the UN and ask that charges be brought...
..against the USAfor its treatment of American negroes? - Oh, yes.
The audience will have to be quiet.
Please...
Those nations, African nations, Latin nations and Asian nations...
..are hypocritical when they denounce the racism in South Africa...
..and say absolutely nothing about the racism here in American society.
Now, I wouldn't be a man if I did not do so.
Are you prepared to work with other leaders, civil rights organizations?
We're prepared to work with any organization...
..as long as they're genuinely interested in positive results.
- Does your beard have any religious significance? - No, but...
..as black people strive to throw off the shackles of mental colonialism...
..they will also throw off the shackles of cultural colonialism.
I believe that a mental and cultural migration back to Africa...
..not necessarily a physical migration, not at this point...
..which means to reaffirm our bond with our brothers overthere...
..would help to strengthen black people here in America.
It would give us the incentive to solve our problems here at home.
Awhile back you called for black people to get rifles.
Do you still favorthat?
If white people find themselves the victims of the same violence...
..that black people have found themselves victims ofin America...
..and if the government was unwilling to do anything about it...
..they would be intelligent to defend themselves. -What about the guns?
When you tell your people to stop being violent against mine...
..I'll tell them to put away their guns. -You are still an extremist.
- Get your hands out of my pocket! - What's going on?
- Damn! - Next question.
Malcolm, you're one dead Red nigger!
Your days are numbered, brother.
Come to bed.
- Get some rest. - Yes.
I'm sorry, Betty.
- Forwhat? - I haven't been the best husband or father.
I'll never make another long trip without you and the children.
I missed you and the girls.
- We'll all be together, I promise. - Dear heart!
I love you!
Thank you.
Get some sleep.
We were in the bestorganization a black man's ever seen.
The niggers ruined it.
Betty...
Betty! Wake up!
Girls! Get up!
Come on! Out, out!
Go on! Run, run!
Help!
Somebody call the fire department!
I'm a man!
Evidently some type of cocktail bomb...
..was thrown againstthe back of the house. One was thrown on the side.
It bounced up against the window and woke my daughter up.
Had it gone inside the window, my daughters would have been...
Had that happened I would've taken my rifle and gone after anyone.
- Was this a warning or an attempt on your life? -What do you think?
It was an attempt by the nation of lslam upon orders ofMr. Muhammed.
- What do the Muslims say? - I don't care what they're saying!
Minister Baines, who bombed the house?
We feel it's a publicity stunt on the part ofMalcolm X.
We hope it's not: 'If he can't keep the house we won't get it either.'
That's enough. Excuse me.
- You okay? - I'm all right.
- Betty and the kids? - Fine. - I want two men in front of the house!
- Couldn't you see anybody? - No, but I know who it is.
- Give us the command, Malcolm. - Don't worry about the command.
Spark.
Salam-Aleikum, my brothers.
- Here's your key. Enjoy your stay. - Thank you.
OAAU.
Brother Earl, it's Malcolm.
- Earl. - Malcolm! Where are you?
- We've been calling all over. - Hold on.
I'm in a hotel, I'm trying to get some work done fortomorrow.
- Let me and some of the brothers come down. - It's all right.
Now, aboutthe meeting at the Audubon Ballroom, we have to frisk people.
No, I don't want anybody frisked.
We have to change. We have to make people feel comfortable.
I have to be safe around my own kind. I trust that Allah will protect me.
Believing in Allah is one thing, but I also believe in being armed.
We don'twant black people killing each other, all right?
- All right? - We'll protect you, Malcolm. Salam- Aleikum.
No. Peace be unto you, Earl.
Good evening. Do you have a Malcolm X registered?
That Red nigger of yours is dead and so are your bastards too!
- Hello? - Wake up, brother! Salam-Aleikum.
If you come anywhere near my family, I will kill you!
- Betty! - Do you hear me? - Betty!
- It's me, Malcolm. - Malcolm!
They keep calling, they keep threatening. I'm going crazy!
- Don't answer anymore. - When's it going to stop? - Don't answer it.
- Are the brothers on post? - Yes, they're outside.
- Let them answer. Don't touch the phone. - Where are you?
In a hotel, I'm in a hotel.
- Are the girls asleep? - Yes, I just put them down to bed.
Can we come to the meeting tomorrow?
No, I don't think so.
We want to see you, we miss you.
- Betty, it's too dangerous. - It's been dangerous.
Listen, I haven't told this to anybody...
..but I've been thinking about what's been happening lately.
I'm going to stop saying that the nation oflslam is behind this.
I know whatthey can do and I know whatthey can't do.
Some of the things that have been happening lately...
I'll stop saying it's just the nation oflslam, they're not working alone.
- They're getting a lot of help. - Are you sure?
I miss you, Betty.
- You're with us even when you're away. - Come to the Audubon tomorrow.
It'll be all right. We won't let this get us down.
- Bring the girls too. - We miss you so much! - See you tomorrow.
Compared to King, this guy is a monk.
Goodnight.
- Attalah, sit back. Sit up straight. - Yes, Mommy.
Sister...
- Attalah, whatdo you say? - Thank you. -You're welcome, my sister.
Bye-bye.
- The minister hasn't arrived yet. - He'll be here like clockwork.
Sir.
Sir! Are you all right?
- Are you okay? - Yes.
Good. I recognized you. Don'tyou pay them fools no mind...
..you just keep right on doing what you're doing. -Yes, ma'am.
- I'll pray foryou. - Thank you. - Jesus will protect you.
- Salam-Aleikum. - Aleikum-Salam.
- Is the charter ready? - No, brother minister. - No?
Why not?
- You had enough time, didn't you? - We'll have it next week.
The people are out there to hear it today!
Next week, minister.
- Is the reverend here? - No, he called to say he won't attend.
We don't have an opening speaker, we don't have a charter.
- Why didn't you inform me? - I called sister Betty.
- You should've told me! - I assumed that... - Don't assume anything!
Go on down in the front. You too, sister.
Malcolm...
What's wrong?
It's a time for martyrs now.
The way I feel, I shouldn'tgo out there today.
Fine, let's cancel it.
- Is my wife out there, my children? - Down front, as always.
Go out to the pay phone outside, call up the reverend...
..and see if he can make it down. - I'm supposed to be guarding you.
- Besides... - Go outside to the pay phone.
Call up the reverend and see if he can make it down here.
Fine.
Thank you.
- I apologize for raising my voice, very disrespectful. - I understand.
Styles are changing, minds are changing. Everything is changing.
We're living in very changing times.
What might be true today may not be true tomorrow.
Without furtherado, I present to you brother ministerMalcolm.
I pray that you and I will listen...
..listen, hear and understand. Thank you.
Daddy!
- Salam-Aleikum. - Aleikum-Salam.
Getyour hand out of my pocket, nigger!
Brother, please.
Calm down, brothers.
Get down!
- Malcolm! - No!
- Get an ambulance! - Somebody get an ambulance!
They killed him! They killed him!
- Get him! - Kill him!
- He killed Malcolm! - Get him!
Kill him!
- Can you give us a statement? - Is he still alive?
The person you know as Malcolm X is no more.
The assassination ofMalcolm X...
..was an unfortunate tragedy...
..and it reveals thatthere are still numerous people in our nation...
..who have degenerated to the point of expressing dissent through murder.
We haven't learned to disagree without being violent.
Here, at this final hour...
..in this quiet place...
..Harlem has come to bid farewell to one ofits brightest hopes...
..extinguished now and gone from us forever.
It is not in the memory of man that this berated...
..unfortunate, but nonetheless proud community...
..has found a braver, more gallant young champion...
..than this Afro-American who lies before us...
..unconquered still.
I say the word again as he would want me to: Afro-American...
..the Afro-American Malcolm.
Malcolm had stopped being negro years ago.
It had become too small, too puny, too weak a word for him.
Malcolm was biggerthan that, Malcolm had become an Afro-American...
..and he wanted so desperately that we, that all his people...
..would become Afro-Americans too.
There are those who consider it their duty as friends of negro people...
..to tell us to revile him, to flee even from his memory...
..to save ourselves by writing him out of our history.
And we will smile.
They will say he is of hate, a fanatic, a racist...
..who can only bring evil to the cause for which you struggle.
We will answer and say unto them...
'Did you evertalk to brotherMalcolm?'
'Did you ever touch him or have him smile at you?'
'Did you ever really listen to him?'
'Was he ever himself associated with violence orany public disturbance?'
'If you did, you would know him. And if you knew him...'
'..you would know why we must honor him.'
Malcolm was our manhood...
..our living black manhood. This was his meaning to his people.
And in honoring him, we honorthe best in ourselves.
However much we may differ with him orwith each other about him...
..let his going from us serve only to bring us together now.
Consigning these mortal remains to earth, the common mother of all...
..securing the knowledge that what we place in the ground is no more...
..a man, buta seed, which after the winter of our discontent...
..will come forth again to meet us...
..and we shall know him then for what he was and is: a prince.
Our own black shining prince who didn't hesitate to die...
..because he loved us so. - Malcolm X! Malcolm X!
Today, May 19th, we celebrate Malcolm X's birthday.
He was a great Afro-American. Malcolm X is you, all of you...
..and you are Malcolm X. - I'm Malcolm X.
- I'm Malcolm X.
- I am Malcolm X. - I am Malcolm X.
As brotherMalcolm said...
..we declare...
..our right...
..on this earth...
..to be a man.
To be a human being...
..to be given the rights of a human being.
To be respected as a human being...
..in this society...
..on this earth...
..in this day...
..which we intend to bring into existence.
By any means necessary.