PUB: short fiction contest

Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers

 

We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2009 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers is Lauren Foss Goodman's story "Don't Hide Your Light Under A Bushel." Her story has been published in the Fall 2010 issue.

 

$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.

 

RULES
All entries must be postmarked by December 31, 2011.  Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but previously accepted or published work is ineligible.  Entries will be judged by the editors of Boulevard magazine. Send typed, double-spaced manuscript(s) and SAS post card for acknowledgement of receipt to: Boulevard Emerging Writers Contest, PMB 325, 6614 Clayton Road, Richmond Heights, MO 63117.  No manuscripts will be returned. Due to the number of submissions, we cannot respond to each writer individually. Each author will receive an acknowledgement of receipt but will need to check the website for notification of the winner.

 

Entry fee is $15 for each individual story, with no limit per author.  Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Boulevard (one per author).  Make check payable to Boulevard.

 

We accept fiction works up to 8,000 words.  Author's name, address, and telephone number, in addition to the story's title and "Boulevard Emerging Writers Contest," should appear on page one.  Cover sheets are not necessary.

 

The winning story will be first announced on the website and then published in the Spring or Fall 2012 issue of Boulevard.

 

These are the complete guidelines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

via boulevardmagazine.org

 

VIDEO: Malcolm X: sisters in struggle

Malcolm X:

sisters in struggle

by Sokari on May 19, 2011

 

Dionne Brand

Remembering Malcolm X – Black Canadian women discussing the racism they experience in Canada – Sisters in the Struggle: Dionne Brand & Ginny Stikeman, 1991

“Sisters in the Struggle” (Dionne Brand & Ginny Stikeman, 1991, Canada, 50 min)

This short documentary features Black women active in politics as well as community, labour and feminist organizing. They share their insights and personal testimonies on the double legacy of racism and sexism, linking their personal struggles with the ongoing battle to end systemic discrimination and violence against women and people of colour.                     

via blackfeministtheories

via blacklooks.org

 

SYRIA: Dorothy Parvaz is free > blog - A Gay Girl in Damascus

Dorothy Parvaz is free

 

What prison looks like

 

I was standing in two fist-sized pools of smeared, sticky blood, trying to sort out why there were seven angry Syrians yelling at me. Only one of them - who I came to know as Mr Shut Up during my three days in a detention center, where so many Syrians 'disappeared' are being kept - spoke English.

Watching them searching my bags, and observing the set of handcuffs hanging from the bunk bed wedged behind the desk in the middle of the room, I guessed that I was being arrested - or, at the very least, processed for detention.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked.

"Shut up! SHUT UP!" said Mr Shut Up.

I'd arrived there moments before, dragged by a handful of hair from a car where I'd been wedged between two armed men. They'd tried to convince me that they were taking me to my hotel, but, of course, I knew that there was no way plain-clothed security personnel would be kind enough to escort me to my accommodation.

I did, however, manage to resist being forced to wear a blindfold, figuring that if they were going to shoot me, they really didn't need a reason to do so.

After about 20 minutes, we pulled off the highway and through two checkpoints. By this point, the rather handsy security guard to my left had pulled my scarf over my eyes.

Armed guards opened a gate to what seemed like a military compound, filled with dozens of men, all plain-clothed, lurking in an atmosphere suited only to cracking skulls - so heightened was the sense of impending violence.

Welcome to mini-Guantanamo; perhaps one of many in Syria where protesters and bystanders alike have been swept up in the wide net cast by an increasingly paranoid government since the start of anti-government protests several weeks ago.

I'd ended up there because a scan of my luggage had revealed that I had a satellite phone and an internet hub with me - the commercially available type, nothing special, and just the sort of thing one might need while travelling in a country with spotty communications.

Still, if that was deemed suspicious, then my American passport, complete with its Al Jazeera-sponsored visa, sealed the deal. The agents couldn't seem to agree what I was, or which was worse: an American spy for Israel, or an Al Jazeera reporter – both were pretty much on a par.

Blindfolded, I was led to the first of my three cells - a tiny, sparse room, roughly three paces across and five length-wise. On the floor, on a ratty brown blanket, sat a young woman whose face was puffy from crying. She said she was 25 and from Damascus and indicated that she had been there for four days. She didn't know why she'd been picked up by the Mukhabarat, the Syrian intelligence service.

She said she was a shop assistant in a clothes store, and the designer stilettos that sat in the corner of the cell seemed to belie any suggestion that this was a girl who had left her house in order to participate in protests. She said she'd been speaking on her phone when she was hauled into a car, blindfolded and driven away.

She had no idea where she was, or how long she was to stay there. She had not been allowed to contact her family.

Our eyes moved to the month-long calendar etched on the wall, likely the artwork of a previous dweller. With unspoken glances, we each wondered how long she would remain there.

A man came to the door a couple of times before he took me from the cell, handcuffed and blindfolded me, and led me to what seemed like a courtyard.

He pushed me up against a wall and told me to stand there. As I did so, I heard two sets of interrogations and beatings taking place, about 10 meters away from me in either direction.

The beatings were savage, the words uttered by those beaten only hoarse cries – "Wallahi! Wahalli!" ("I swear to God! I swear to God!") or simply, "La! La!" ("No! No!").

I stood there for what seemed like an eternity, before someone approached me.

"Who do you work for?" he hissed.

"Al Jazeera. Online."

"Are you alone?"

"So alone."

I was taken to a second cell, this one, with smears of blood on the wall. I found what looked like a bloodless corner and perched until called upon again – at around midnight.

I was again handcuffed, but this time, before the blindfolds went on, I caught sight of a young man, no more than 20, chained to a radiator outside the hallway. He had a legal pad on his knees, was blindfolded, and was quivering so fiercely he could hardly hold the pen with which he was probably meant to ink some sort of confession.

Meanwhile, the beatings and cries outside continued.

I was taken through a labyrinth of stairs, before entering an office where my interrogator awaited me. I managed to talk him into allowing the blindfolds to be removed.

The man - let's call him 'Firass' - was slightly portly and could be affable when he wanted to be (he seemed concerned that there were women being kept at the facility, and tried to make things comfortable for me).

Firass even apologised for the fact that our "formal interview" was taking place in a room containing a bed, crates of potatoes and a refrigerator.

"It's just that we’re so busy these days," he said.

I wanted to ask why the Mukhabarat would be so busy if such a tiny minority was causing problems, but it didn't seem like a prudent moment.

Firass spoke very good English and, at first, seemed convinced that I was a spy.

Then he focused on Al Jazeera, putting the network on the same level as Human Rights Watch. The network had been making a "big problem" for Syria with the UN Security Council, he said.

After four hours of questioning, he sent me to a different room, this one a long-disused office where a terrified teenage girl was sleeping on the couch.

The next morning, my new roommate and I tried to get acquainted, without sharing too many details, as we had been forbidden to do so. She too had been plucked from the streets of a Damascus suburb for reasons she couldn’t understand.

She'd been there for eight days when I met her, and she looked ill. The food we were given three times a day - fetid, random and at times, rotting - mostly had the effect of making her vomit, but she was too hungry to stop eating all together.

There was a doctor on site, parked next to a sign that read "Assad is Boss", but the girl seemed too frightened to see the doctor - no wonder.

Most of the our days were spent listening to the sounds of young men being brutally interrogated – sometimes tied up in stress positions until it sounded like their bones were cracking, as we saw from our bathroom window (a bathroom with no running water, except for one tap in a sink filled with roughly 10 cm of sewage).

One afternoon, the beating we heard was so severe that we could clearly hear the interrogator pummelling his boots and fists into his subject, almost in a trance, yelling questions or accusations rhythmically as the blows landed in what sounded like the prisoner's midriff.

My roommate shook and wept, reminding me (or perhaps herself) that they didn't beat women here.

There was a brief break before the beating resumed, and my first impulse was to cover my ears, but then I thought, "If this man is crying, shouldn’t someone hear him?"

After all, judging from the sound of passing traffic and from what I could see through our window, there were no homes nearby – just a highway, a sprawling old security compound, and what appeared to be an old prison; a few official buildings that had seen better days. That's all I could see from our cell.

When one of the Mukhabarat agents came in, my teenage cellmate proceeded to beg him to allow her to use her mobile phone to call her parents, which, of course, was not going to happen.

She asked about the beatings we'd heard outside, and was told that the men being punished were murderers who had shot people in Deraa.

Later, Mr Shut Up came and took my roommate away for interrogation, which made me worry. She returned an hour later, with no apparent resolution to her problem. She still looked out the window and cried, worrying about her parents, wondering if or when she'd see them again.

I couldn't help but wonder: what sort of threat does this girl pose to the Syrian state that they have to keep her in this rotting room? What are they so afraid of?

After three days, Firass told me I was free to return to Qatar – something for which I was very grateful.

He even took me to his boss's office – again, remember, no one has any names here – where I was given a lecture on Al Jazeera’s coverage of the troubles in Syria, mostly focusing on how a tiny, tiny minority was causing a problem for an essentially happy majority.

On my way out of the compound, I was finally allowed to see it for what it was – a shabby set of offices and cellblocks with pictures of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, framed in the sort of metallic stands that might promote two-for-one-drinks offers at the theatre, placed every few metres. The effect was farcical.

I was taken to the airport, but I was certainly not allowed to return to Qatar. Instead, I was dragged, kicking and screaming, onto a flight bound for Tehran (I'd entered Syria with an Iranian passport). Call it a strange brand of extraordinary rendition, if you will.

The Syrian authorities had alleged to the Iranians that I was a spy – a charge that can carry a death penalty in Iran.

Fortunately, in my case, the facts were borne out. After a couple of weeks of interrogations, the investigator in Iran charged with my case determined that I was not a spy, but a journalist.

On Wednesday, without drama or incident, I was released and put on a dawn flight from Tehran to Doha – it was a simple matter of a judge's approval.

Although I have written critically of some of Iran's policies, I was treated with respect, courtesy and care thoughout my detention there.

My room was spotless, my interrogator flawlessly polite, and the women who looked after me at the Evin Prison Women's Detention Centre saw to it that my every need was met – especially the sleeping pills I required, because every night, without fail, I would hear the cries of men screaming in Syria "Wallahi! Wallahi!" and wonder how their wounds will ever heal.

 

via damascusgaygirl.blogspot.com

 

OP-ED: The IMF (International Mother-Fuckers) - They Rape You And Then Claim It Was Consensual Sex

Columnist Tonya Weathersbee

Links IMF’s Chief Arrest for Rape

to the Disregard for Africa

18May2011  Author: drjelks

written by Tonya Weathersbee
Weathersbee is a columnist for Jacksonville, Florida’s The Times-Union.
Source: BlackAmericaWeb

 

Semen, a cell phone and surveillance recordings could very well turn out to be the proof that puts Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of sexually assaulting a West African chambermaid who came to clean his suite at the tony Sofitel Hotel in New York City, behind bars.

But the entire incident may also wind up being proof of something more symbolic and disturbing: That men like Strauss-Khan, who heads the International Monetary Fund, seem to be more inclined towards exploiting vulnerable people than they are towards helping them.

That goes for nations and individuals alike.

Here’s the story so far. Strauss-Khan, a man who was favored to become France’s next president and a man whose organization is supposed to help developing countries but ensnares them further in debt and misery, emerged naked from the shower and surprised the chambermaid, who thought the suite had been vacated.

She told authorities that she apologized and tried to leave, but he chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a bathroom, where she said he sodomized her and forced her to perform oral sex on him. She ultimately broke free and reported the incident to hotel staffers, who summoned the police.

Strauss-Khan was denied bail, and now sits in prison as he awaits a court hearing on Friday.

If he is ultimately found guilty, it could mean a few things.

It could mean that he simply is a pervert. Or it could mean that he felt free to treat the African maid in the same way that the IMF, as well as the French-led peacekeepers in the Ivory Coast and Congo, felt free to exploit Africans while purporting to help them.

It’s been that way for some time now.

According to Africa Action, a Washington, D.C. organization that has been around since 1953 trying to improve the plight of African countries and foster policies that spur their development, the World Bank and the IMF’s policies have hurt Africa. Over the years, the IMF has forced Africa to adopt structural adjustment programs in order to get badly needed loans.

But the conditions for the loans – such as privatization of basic services such as water – often undercut availability, lead to disease and misery and leave everyday Africans impoverished and struggling.

They also leave the countries more in debt.

Then in 2005, when the French were trying to quell a conflict in the Ivory Coast, a number of its soldiers began to see the country as a place to act out their crudest fantasies. Twelve soldiers were sentenced by a French military court for repeatedly robbing a bank, while four were accused of sexually abusing an Ivorian girl.

 

Then there’s Didier Bourguet, a senior United Nations official from France, who, during that same time, was supposed to be in Congo trying to help keep the peace, but instead used young Congolese girls for Internet sex porn. He took photos of himself having sex with the girls.

In one photo, it was reported that a tear could be seen rolling down the cheek of one of his victims.

Bourguet wasn’t the only UN official who sexually exploited African women and girls during that time – and the French certainly weren’t the only ones doing it. Peacekeepers from countries raped young African girls - many times after luring them with foodstuffs such as jam and peanut butter - and then forcing them to have sex.

They did it because deep down inside, they saw these African females as objects and not humans. Therefore, their mission to protect them came second to their duty to act on their crudest impulses, using girls as young as 11 as if they were a piece of tissue or a toothpick.

Of course, Strauss-Khan is innocent until proven guilty. But so far, the incident makes me think about how, for the powerful people and countries of the world, all things African seem to be easy pickings.

And how a West African woman who immigrated to the United States to work as a hotel chambermaid may not have traveled far enough to escape that fate.


>via theblackbottom.com

 

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn:

Ex-IMF boss wins New York bail

Strauss-Kahn lawyer William Taylor said the idea of his client skipping bail was "ludicrous"

Strauss-Kahn case

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been granted bail by a judge in a New York court, after being formally charged with trying to rape a hotel maid.

Mr Strauss-Kahn had earlier resigned as the International Monetary Fund's boss.

His lawyers said he was honourable and would not try to abscond. Prosecutors said he had "incentive to flee".

Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus imposed $1m cash bail and said there must be 24-hour home detention, with an armed guard and electronic monitoring.

The judge said one armed guard must be deployed at all times, at Mr Strauss-Kahn's expense, and the defendant must surrender all travel documents. In addition to the $1m (£618,000) cash bail, a $5m insurance bond would also apply.

Mr Strauss-Kahn will spend a fourth night at the notorious Rikers Island prison on Thursday before the bail papers are signed.

He will appear in court again on 6 June, when he will formally enter a plea. He has denied all the accusations against him.

'Life of ease'

Mr Strauss-Kahn's wife, Anne Sinclair, was in court for Thursday's hearing.

The Frenchman - who was not wearing handcuffs or shackles, but was flanked by four police officers - smiled at her as he entered the Manhattan courtroom.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at 19 May hearingThe prosecution said the $1m bail offer was "unreasonable"

Mr Strauss-Kahn had been denied bail at an earlier hearing on Monday.

But defence lawyers said the prosecution's bail position was unfair and not consistent with the law.

The prosecution said Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, had left the alleged crime scene with "unusual haste" and that any bail arrangement would be insufficient.

The judge asked for details of Mr Strauss-Kahn's financial situation.

The defence said he had a net worth of roughly $2m and offered $1m bail.

Prosecutor John McConnell said this was "unreasonable", adding: "We are in possession right now of only one passport. We simply don't know what other documents he has access to or could get."

He said Mr Strauss-Kahn had the means to live "a life of ease and comfort" in parts of the world "beyond this country's jurisdiction".

But Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyer, William Taylor, said: "The prospect of Mr Strauss-Kahn teleporting himself to France and living there as an accused sex offender, fugitive, is ludicrous."

After the ruling, Mr Taylor said: "We want to express our pleasure that the judge has made this decision. It's great relief to the family to be able to have him with them."

Anne Sinclair arrives for the court hearing, 19 MayAnne Sinclair arrives for the court hearing

Mr Strauss-Kahn has now been formally charged following a grand jury hearing, attended on Wednesday by his accuser, a 32-year-old originally from Guinea in west Africa.

The charges set out by the New York district attorney's office included four felony counts - two of criminal sexual acts, one of attempted rape and one of sexual abuse - plus three misdemeanour offences, including unlawful imprisonment.

Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance said Mr Strauss-Kahn had been indicted on all the charges presented to the grand jury.

The incident allegedly took place at New York's Sofitel hotel on 14 May.

Mr Strauss-Kahn earlier announced his resignation from the IMF.

In a statement posted on the IMF website late on Wednesday, he said he had resigned with "infinite sadness" but wanted to "devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence".

His resignation has sparked debate about his successor.

Leading voices in Europe say another European should head the fund.

A number of figures have voiced support for French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.

>via: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13459753

 

 

 

 

 

VIDEO: Happy Birthday Malcolm X

Happy Birthday Malcolm X

19May2011  Author: Jonathan Jelks

Malcolm’s words speak for them self!

via theblackbottom.com

 

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MALCOLM X: OUR HISTORY WAS DESTROYED BY SLAVERY

The Complete Malcolm X on DVD: http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/

Malcolm X appears on a television show in Chicago called "City Desk" on March 17, 1963.

"My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster. The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slavemaster was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever."

http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

Malcolm X in Selma, Alabama (February 4, 1965)

The Complete Malcolm X on DVD: http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/

On February 4, during a visit to Selma, Alabama, Malcolm spoke to 300 civil rights workers at Brown Chapel AME Church. 

"If the federal government does not find it within its power and ability to investigate a criminal organization such as the Klan, then you and I are within our rights to wire Secretary-General U Thant of the United Nations and charge the federal government in this country, behind Lyndon B. Johnson, with being derelict in its duty to protect the human rights of twenty-two million Black people in this country. And in their failure to protect our human rights, they are violating the United Nations Charter, and they are not qualified to continue to sit in that international body and talk about what human rights should be done in other countries on this earth.

I have to say this, then I'll sit down. Back during slavery, when Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didn't kill 'em, they sent some old house Negro along behind him to undo what he said. You have to read the history of slavery to understand this.

There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negroes got too much out of line, he held them back in check. He put 'em back on the plantation.

The house Negro could afford to do that because he lived better than the field Negro. He ate better, he dressed better, and he lived in a better house. He lived right up next to his master - in the attic or the basement. He ate the same food his master ate and wore his same clothes. And he could talk just like his master - good diction. And he loved his master more than his master loved himself. That's why he didn't want his master hurt.

If the master got sick, he'd say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" When the master's house caught afire, he'd try and put the fire out. He didn't want his master's house burned. He never wanted his master's property threatened. And he was more defensive of it than the master was. That was the house Negro.

But then you had some field Negroes, who lived in huts, had nothing to lose. They wore the worst kind of clothes. They ate the worst food. And they caught hell. They felt the sting of the lash. They hated their master. Oh yes, they did.

If the master got sick, they'd pray that the master died. If the master's house caught afire, they'd pray for a strong wind to come along. This was the difference between the two.

And today you still have house Negroes and field Negroes.

I'm a field Negro. 

If I can't live in the house as a human being, I'm praying for a wind to come along. If the master won't treat me right and he's sick, I'll tell the doctor to go in the other direction. But if all of us are going to live as human beings, as brothers, then I'm for a society of human beings that can practice brotherhood.

But before I sit down, I want to thank you for listening to me. I hope I haven't put anybody on the spot. I'm not intending to try and stir you up and make you do something that you wouldn't have done anyway.

I pray that God will bless you in everything that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually, so that you can understand the problems of the world and where you fit into, in that world picture. And I pray that all the fear that has ever been in your heart will be taken out, and when you look at that man, if you know he's nothing but a coward, you won't fear him. If he wasn't a coward, he wouldn't gang up on you. He wouldn't need to sneak around here. [Applause] This is how they function. They function in mobs - that's a coward. They put on a sheet so you won't know who they are - that's a coward.

No! The time will come when that sheet will be ripped off. If the federal government doesn't take it off, we'll take it off.

Thank you."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chronology of the Life and Activities of Malcolm X

1919 •1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929 • 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 •1939 • 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 •1959 • 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 •

  

YEAR

  

Month

  

Day

   

EVENT

1919

  

05

  

10

  

Earl Little, a Baptist preacher from Georgia, marries Louise Norton in Montreal.

1923

 

  

 

  

Earl and Louise Little move with their three small children to Omaha, Nebraska

1924

  

12

 

  

The Ku Klux Klansmen warned Louise, then pregnant with Malcolm, to get her family out of town, because her husband was stirring up trouble in the black community with UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) "back to Africa" preaching.

1925

  

05

  

19

  

Malcolm Little is born at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.

1926

  

12

 

  

The Little family moves to Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1927

  

05

  

27

  

UNIA newspaper Negro World identifies Earl Little as leader of UNIA chapter in Indiana Harbor (East Chicago), Indiana.

1927

  

08

 

  

Malcolm's brother Reginald born in Milwaukee, WI.

1928

  

01

 

  

Earl Little buys a house in Lansing, Michigan, where he continues to preach.

1929

  

11

  

07

  

The Little home is set afire and burns to the ground.

 TOP

12

 

The next month Earl Little builds a new home on the outskirts of East Lansing, Michigan.

1930

08

 

In Detroit, Michigan, the followers of W.D. Fard, an itinerant peddler and preacher known as "The Prophet," establish the first Temple of Islam.

1931

01

 

Malcolm Little enrolls in kindergarten at Pleasant Grove Elementary School.

 

09

28

Earl Little is run over by a streetcar and dies; rumor holds that he was murdered by the Black Legion, a local white supremacist group.

1938

10 

27 

West Junior High School, Lansing (completed 7th grade 6-17-39).

1939

01

09

Louise Little is declared legally insane and formally committed to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo, where she remained for twenty-six years.

 

Spring

 

Malcolm tells his favorite teacher that he wants to become a lawyer; he is told that "that's no realistic goal for a nigger."

 

05

10

Worked for Dr. Gertrude Sullivan as Chauffeur/ Houseman, 207 Washington St., Mason, Michigan until 2-7-41.

 

08

 

A social worker recommends that Malcolm be placed in a juvenile home; Judge John McClellan concurs. Malcolm sent to the Michigan State Detention Home run by the Swerlins.

 

09

 

Mason High School, Mason, Michigan.

1940

05

 

Malcolm is placed in various foster homes.

 TOP

06

07

Worked for Leo Kelly, Oak St., Mason, Michigan Lansing areas. Various addresses in Mason, Michigan (with foster parents until February, 1941).

1941

02

 

Malcolm moves to Boston to live with his paternal half sister Mrs. Ella Collins 72 Dale Street (Mass., until 1942).

 

 

 

Holds a variety of jobs--among them shoe shining, dishwashing, and soda jerking--and works off and on for the New Haven Railroad; becomes involved with Boston's underworld fringe (until 1942).

 

06

07

Worked for New Haven R.R., Boston, Mass

1942

11

 

Moves back to Michigan for about four months.

 

 

 

Worked for Shaw's Jewelry Store as a porter-messenger in Lansing, Michigan for $30. Quit job on 12/92.

1943

03

 

Moves to New York City; again works for the New Haven Railroad.

 

Spring

 

Fired from railroad job; he becomes a waiter at Small's Paradise in Harlem.

 

 

 

Jimmy's Chicken Shack, 763 St. Nicholas Ave., NYC as a waiter, he received $50 - $80 as a permanent & occasional worker.

 

06

01

Registers at Local Board 59 of New York City.

 

10

25

U. S. Army finds Malcolm "mentally disqualified for military service;" because of psychopathic personality inadequacies, sexual perversion, psychiatric rejection; is classified 4F.

 

 

 

Malcolm works intermittently on the railroad; known on the streets as Big Red, he also pushes dope, plays the numbers, peddles bootleg whiskey, and hustles. Under the stage name of Jack Carlton, he works as a bar entertainer at a New York nightclub, The Lobster Pond, in July 1944. In October he returns to Boston for two months or so.

1944

07

 

Abe Goldstein, 152 W. 42nd St., NYC as bartender and entertainer for $60, job ended 9/44 due to end of season.

 TOP

10

 

Returns to Boston and works as a packer in Sears & Roebuck Co., Warehouse in Brookline, for $29 for 3 weeks, when he walked off job.

 

11

29

Indicted for larceny; receives three month suspended sentence and is placed on probation for one year.

1945

01

 

Returns to Michigan after a holiday stint at a New York nightclub; works briefly as a busboy at Mayfair Ballroom in East Lansing.

 

08

 

Moves back to New York; lives in Harlem.

 

 

 

Capitol Badding Co., 207 North Cedar St., Lansing (also did dancing under name of Rhythm Red at various ballrooms and night clubs) made $5 a day.

 

12

 

Embarks on a Christmas season stealing binge in Boston with his friend Bea and her sister Joyce Caragulian, Francis "Sonny" Brown, Kora Marderosian, and Malcolm Jarvis.

1946

01

12

Attempts to reclaim a stolen watch he left for repair at a Boston jewelry store and is arrested; indicted for carrying firearms, larceny, and breaking and entering.

 

01

15

Indicted for carrying firearms.

 

01

16

Charged with Grand Larceny & Breaking and Entering.

 

02

27

Malcolm begins serving prison term at Charlestown, MA where is initiates his own reading program in the prison library. Serves 8-10 year sentence, released 8-7-52.

1947

01

10

Transferred to Concord Reformatory for fifteen months; Malcolm meets Bimbi in prison.

1948

 

 

Malcolm introduced to the NOI (Nation of Islam) teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad by his brother Reginald.

 TOP

03

 

Malcolm transferred to Norfolk Prison Colony (Mass.) and gains access to an excellent library.

1952

08

07

Paroled from Mass State Prison.

 

08

08

Travels to Detroit; lives with brother Wilfred E. Little until 5-4-53. Gets a job as a furniture salesman in a store managed by Wilfred.

1953

01

 

Leaves the furniture store for an assembly line job at the Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury Division. FBI opens surveillance file on Malcolm.

 

02

 

Attends various NOI meetings until June.

 

 

 

Malcolm moves to Chicago and lives with Elijah Mohammad while studying for the ministry.

 

06

 

Quits Gar Wood when named the assistant minister at Detroit Temple No. 1. Quits auto plant job

 

09

 

Becomes first minister of Boston Temple No. 11

1954

01

 

Attends meetings of New York Temple No. 7.

 TOP

01

08

Speaks at Boston NOI Temple meeting.

 

02

 

Serves as tour leader for New York Temple No. 7 during NOI Convention in Chicago.

 

03

 

Becomes acting minister of Philadelphia Temple No. 12.

 

06

 

Becomes minister of New York Temple No. 7.

 1955

05

01

Holds NOI meeting in Lansing, Michigan.

 

11

11

Identified as official minister of the NOI Temple No. 12 in Philadelphia.

 

 

 

According to Autobiography, Malcolm X first hears rumors of Elijah Muhammad's adultery.

1956

 

 

Betty Sanders joins New York Temple No. 7; she is renamed Betty X.

 

02

26

Arranges transportation for NOI members to go to Chicago for "Savior's Day."

 

08

25

Lectures to over two hundred NOI members at the first Southern Goodwill Tour of the Brotherhood of Islam in Atlanta, Georgia (until 8/26).

1957

04

14

NOI member Hinton Johnson is beaten by New York police and jailed; outside the 123rd Street police station, where a contingent of Muslims from Temple No. 7 has gathered. Malcolm demands that Johnson be taken to hospital and then sends the NOI members home.

 TOP

07

18

Los Angeles Herald Dispatch carries article captioned, Young Moslem Leader Explains The Doctrine of Mohammedanism." Malcolm X begins, "God's Angry Men" column this week.

 

09

 

Serves as minister of NOI Temple in Detroit, Michigan.

 

11

09

Pittsburgh Courier reports Malcolm X announcement that Hinton Johnson is filing a one million dollar suit against the officers who beat and arrested him in April.

 

11

28

Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch carries article captioned, "Malcolm X Speaks at Elk Hall Wed., Night."

 

12

 

Tells Elijah Muhammad of his plan to marry Sister Betty X.

1958

01

12

Telephones Betty Sanders with a marriage proposal from a gas station in Detroit; she says yes.

  TOP

01

14

Malcolm marries Betty X two days after his proposal by a Justice of the Peace in Lansing.

 

01

19

The newlyweds drive back to New York and reside in three rooms of a two-family flat in East Elmhurst, Queens.

 

01

19

Malcolm comments that he can't understand why Negroes should become so excited about a demonstration "run by whites in front of a statue of a president who has been dead for a hundred years and who didn't like us when he was alive."

 

05

21

Attends funeral of Marie Muhammad, mother of Elijah Muhammad, in Chicago.

 

08

01

Speaker at a street meeting held at 125th & 7th Ave., Manhattan, held by the Nation of Islam.

 

10

29

Speaks at NOI meeting in Philadelphia.

 

11

 

Attilah born (Malcolm's first daughter).

1959

 

 

TV documentary, "The Hate That Hate Produced"

  TOP

02

08

Speaks at NOI meeting in New York.

 

02

11

Speaks at NOI meeting in Buffalo, New York.

 

02

15

Speaks at NOI Temple No. 18 in Cleveland.

 

03

22

Speaks at NOI meeting in New York.

 

03

29

Tells New York NOI meeting that Negroes should sit and wait without violence because the white man will destroy himself.

 

 

 

Malcolm X travels to United Arab Republic, Sudan and Nigeria

 

04

15

Speaker at a meeting of the African Freedom Day Rally sponsored by the United African Nationalist Movement., Mr. James R. Lawson, chairman.

 

04

23

Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch publishes article captioned, "Malcolm X calls for Bandung Conference of Negro Leaders."

 

05

03

Speaks at New York NOI meeting.

 1959

05

27

Passport issued to Malcolm Little, also known as Malik El-Shabazz.

 TOP

07

05

Announced at New York NOI meeting that Malcolm X has left for Holland. Travels from there to Egypt, Mecca, Iran, Syria, and Ghana as Elijah Muhammad's ambassador.

 

07

13

FBI learns from NOI member in New York that Malcolm X has met with Nasser of Egypt while in Africa.

 

 

 

WTNA-TV Channel 13 in New York, airs five-part report by Mike Wallace entitled, "The Hate That Hate Produced (until 7/17)."

 

07

26

At Saint Nicholas Arena in New York, Malcolm X speaks about recent trip to the Middle East prior to speech by Elijah Muhammad; states that he became ill during the visit and was unable to go to Mecca.

 

08

22

In "Pulse of the Public," column, New York Amsterdam News carries letter written by Malcolm X from Khartoum, Sudan.

 

08

24

Tells joint meeting of the FOI (Fruit of Islam) and MGT (Muslim Girls' Training) of Temple No. 7 that "the FBI would want to know everything so they hire these stool pigeons to start trouble."

 

08

25

Speaks at NOI meeting in New York.

 

09

09

At New York NOI meeting, reads a letter the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) sent to the New York Police Commissioner.

 

09

16

Narrates movies of recent trip abroad at NOI meeting at Temple No. 25 in Newark, New Jersey.

1960

03

03

Debates William M. James on WMCA radio show called "Pro and Con"; the topic is: "Is Black Supremacy the Answer?"

  TOP

03

23

Speaks at NOI meeting in New York.

 

07

 

Family moves to a seven-room house at 23-11 97th Street in East Elmhurst, Queens.

 

08

 

According to FBI informants, allegedly forms nucleus of followers within NOI to take over after Elijah Muhammad's death.

 

09

21

Spoke with Fidel Castro for thirty minutes at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.

 

10

08

Speaker at a street rally in the vicinity of Hotel Theresa, 125th Street & 7th Avenue, Manhattan in honor of Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana.

 

12

 

Says U.S. revolution is starting in Harlem and expresses admiration for Lenin and Stalin; predicts that Africans will be free with the assistance of the Russian army.

 

12

25

Quilah born (Malcolm's second daughter).

1961

01

28

Meets with Ku Klux Klan officials to solicit aid in obtaining land.

  TOP

02

15

Led Muslims in demonstration in front of the United Nations protesting the death of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Congo.

 

03

24

Malcolm X speaks at Harvard Law School forum entitled "The American Negro: Problems and Solutions", he debates Walter Carrington of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).

 

05

13

Main speaker at Freedom Rally sponsored by the Nation of Islam in front of 2107 7th Avenue, Manhattan (National Memorial Book Store).

 

08

22

Along with Louis Michaux and Alex Primps, spoke at a street meeting in front of the National Book Store.

 

08

24

Observed in attendance at street meeting in front of National Memorial Book Store sponsored by African Nationalist groups.

 

08

29

Spoke at a street meeting in front of the National Memorial Book Store, 2107 7th Avenue, Manhattan

 

08

30

On the dais of meeting held by Emergency Committee for Unity On Social and Economic Problems held at 217 West 125th Street, NY. Chairman of said committee was A. Phillip Randolph

 1961

09

 

Visits Los Angeles.

 TOP

09

06

Speaker at a street meeting sponsored by the Emergency Committee For Unity and Economic Problems.

 

10

08

The Minister of Muhammad Mosque #7, NYC National representative of Elijah Muhammed, as well as embissary to the Islamic Nations of Africa was a guest lecturer at a forum sponsored by the Social Action Committee of the New York Community Church, 40 East 35th Street, NYC. Said forum entitled "The Truth About the Black Muslims" was presided over by Rev. Donald S. Harrington.

 

10

15

Malcolm X on TV show "Open Mind" moderated by Princeton Prof. Eric Goldman, with M. Berger, K. Clark, R. Halen, and C.B. Motley (2-5).

 

10

16

Appears on NBC television program "Open Mind" with Morroe Berger, Kenneth B. Clark, Richard Haley, and Constance B. Motley, with moderator Eric P. Goldman. The topic is "Where is the American Negro Headed?"

 

10

18

Banned from speaking at Queens College.

 

11

21

Dr. Harry Rivilin, acting president of City College of New York, announces that he has no objection to the Eugene V. Debs Club inviting Malcolm X to speak on campus.

 

12

 

Elijah Muhammad returns from tour of Muslim countries and issues directive that NOI temples shall now be called mosques.

1962

 

 

Leader of the NY Muslims participated in a debate at Community Church, 40 E. 35th Street, NYC sponsored by War Resisters League. Advocated removal of all blacks to Africa or the formation of separate black state.

  TOP

01

 

Delivers speech blasting Negro leadership to an overflowing crowd in Homes Hall at Los Angeles City College.

 

 

 

One of the guest panelists on radio station WWRL called the Angry Negroes. He reiterated his usual feeling opposing the white man and condemned the Negro for their apparent lack of unity.

 

02

15

In Chicago, debates Bayard Rustin on the topic, "Integration or Separation for the Black Man?"

 

03

11

New York Journal American reports that civil rights leader, James Farmer and Whitney Young, downgrades the influence of Malcolm X upon the Negro community and the overall civil rights struggle.

 

04

27

NOI member Ronald Stokes dies in police shooting; Malcolm X attempts to rally Negroes to protest killing.

 

04

28

Malcolm speaks at Abyssinian Baptist Church

 1962

05

01

Minister of Black Muslims, Temple #7, spoke at a program held at Palm Garden. Theme of the program "The Challenge of Racism".

 TOP

05

01

Attends a New York symposium sponsored by the Committee to Aid the Monroe Defendants.

 

05

01

Malcolm on panel discussion with James Farmer and William Worthy.

 

05

05

Conducts funeral services for Stokes.

 

05

10

Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch reports that more than two thousand people attend the funeral of Ronald Stokes; also covers Malcolm X press conference concerning the shooting.

 

05

17

Tells Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch that Stoke's death was "murder in cold blood."

 

05

20

Speaks at protest rally at Park Manor Auditorium. Claims that socialists, communists, and liberals are joining to get rid of the common enemy with white skin.

1962 

06

06

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner reports on a tape recording of an NOI meeting in which Malcolm X states that a recent plane crash in Paris was Allah's way of executing justice upon those responsible for the lynching of Stokes.

 TOP

07

22

Leader of NYC Muslims was a speaker at a labor rally held at 72nd Street and 3rd Avenue, NYC sponsored by Committee For Justice to Hospital Workers

 

07

 

Ilyasah born (Malcolm's third daughter).

 

09

15

Delivers impromptu address at outdoor rally in Harlem to protest police brutality.

 

11

26

Dora McDonald, secretary to Martin Luther King, Jr., informs Malcolm X that King refuses to debate him because "he has always considered his work in a positive action framework rather than engaging in consistent negative debate."

 

12

12

Malcolm lectures at the Harlem Mosque "The Black Man's History"

 

 

 

Rumors of Elijah Muhammad's adultery cause numerous Muslims to leave Chicago Mosque No. 2; Malcolm X talks to three of Elijah Muhammad's former secretaries, all of whom have had children by Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm X learns that Elijah Muhammad's son Herbert has been instructing "Muhammad Speaks" writers to feature Malcolm X as little as possible.

1963

01

01

Speaks at New York Mosque No. 7 dinner program, "A Night with the FOI," which includes music, exhibits, drills, and special demonstrations by the FOI.

  TOP

01

30

Speaks at Hi-Fi Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

 

02

 

Feelings of resentment and animosity develops between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's family.

 

02

03

In an interview at WMAL in Washington, D.C., Malcolm X states that Elijah Muhammad does not advocate overthrow of the government. Say FBI goes beyond its duty in "religious suppression" of Muslims.

 

02

04

States during WMAL program that "the FBI spends twenty-four hours a day infiltrating or trying to infiltrate Muslims."

 

02

13

Malcolm X leads Muslim demonstration in Times Square.

 

03

10

Returns to New York from Chicago on orders from Elijah Muhammad.

 

03

23

Malcolm speaks at Harlem rally for Mississippi struggle along with Dick Gregory and Adam Clayton Powell.

 

04

 

Flies to Phoenix, Arizona, to meet with Elijah Muhammad at Elijah Muhammad's home.

 

04

 

Serves as Interim Minister of the NOI in Washington, D.C., (until October).

 

05

 

Writes apologetic letter to Elijah Muhammad telling him they should work together and not be divided.

 

05

 

Interviewed by James Baldwin on television.

 

05

12

Speaks to audience of four hundred at radio station WUST in Washington, D.C. May 13 Washington Post carries article entitled, "400 Hear Malcolm X Speak Here". Interviewed by WUST in Washington, D.C., between 1:00 and 1:30 P.M. on the program "Focus".

 

05

17

New York Times reports that Malcolm X attacks President Kennedy for the way he dealt with the Birmingham crisis.

 1963

05

25

New York Amsterdam News reports that Malcolm X attacks Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and Floyd Patterson as unwitting tools of white liberals.

 TOP

06

07

Blasts Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty in "Muhammad Speaks" article and charges Los Angeles with operating a Ku Klux Klan police force" that uses Gestapo tactics against the black community and Muslim religious groups.

 

06

13

Elijah Muhammad instructs Malcolm X not to assist the NAACP or any other Negro organization in civil rights demonstration.

 

06

 

Adam Clayton Powell invites Malcolm X to speak at Abyssinian Baptist Church; delivers speech entitled, "The Black Revolution."

 

06

29

Malcolm speaks at Muslim rally at corner of Lenox Ave., and 115th in Harlem.

 

06

 

Malcolm interviewed on TV by Kenneth Clark

 

08

10

Malcolm speaks at Unity rally in Harlem.

 

08

17

Announces at NOI Bazaar in Boston Arena that Elijah Muhammad and the NOI are not supporting or participating in the March on Washington.

 

08

19

Informs audience at FOI meeting at Mosque Number 7 in New York that NOI members who participate in March on Washington will be given ninety days to leave the mosque.

 

08

27

Tells a reporter that "well, whatever black folks do, maybe I don't agree with it, but I'm going to be there (at the March on Washington), brother, 'cause that's where I belong."

 

08

28

Attends March on Washington as a critical observer; comments that he can't understand why Negroes should become so excited about a demonstration "run by whites in front of a statue of a president who has been dead for a hundred years and who didn't like us when he was alive."

1963

09

 

Speaks at rally organized by Jackie Robinson.

  TOP

Fall

 

Delivers speech in Philadelphia entitled "The Old Negro and the New Negro."

 

10

22

Delivers speech to students at Wayne State University in Detroit.

 

11

07

Malcolm speaks at City College of New York.

 

11

10

Malcolm delivers his most influential speech up to this time, "A Message to the Grass Roots" at the Northern Grassroots Leadership Conference in Detroit.

 

11

22

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

 

12

01

At an NOI rally in New York, Malcolm states that Kennedy "never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon," despite a directive from Elijah Muhammad, that no Muslim minister comment on the assassination.

 

12

04

Malcolm suspended and silenced by Elijah Muhammad from his ministry for ninety days for his remark on the death of the president.

 

 

 

Malcolm's mother, Louise Little, released from mental hospital.

 

 

 

Organization Afro-American Unity-Muslim Mosque Inc., (Director/Chairman) until he was killed 2-21-65.

1964

01

06

Summoned to Phoenix for a secret preliminary hearing with Elijah Muhammad, John Ali, and Raymond Sharrieff; rumors circulate in Harlem that Malcolm has been not only suspended but also "isolated," which means that all Muslims are forbidden to speak to him.

  TOP

01

14

Meets with Alex Haley (writer for Reader's Digest) at the International Hotel outside Kennedy Airport.

 

01

15

Visits Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) for a week's vacation at his fight camp in Miami, Florida; their friendship becomes increasingly strained thereafter. Tells sports reporters that he will be reinstated with the NOI in ninety days, although he believes the case to be otherwise.

 

01

21

Returns to New York from week's vacation with family at Cassius Clay's home in Miami, Florida.

 

02

10

Rift between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad appears to be widening.

 

02

 

Former assistant to Malcolm at Mosque No. 7 informs him that he has been asked by a mosque official to wire Malcolm X's car with a bomb.

 

03

06

Summons issued to Malcolm X for speeding on Triborough Bridge.

 

03

 

Malcolm has unplanned meeting with King in hallway after they both observe Senate filibuster on the Civil Rights Bill.

 

03

08

New York Times carries article entitled, "Malcolm X Splits With Muhammad." Malcolm X plans to create "black nationalist party" an will cooperate with local civil rights actions in order to heighten political consciousness of Negroes.

 

03

09

Meeting with Malcolm X, E. Grant, and J. Warden to discuss incorporation of MMI (Muslim Mosque Incorporated). Informant reports that Elijah Muhammad has ordered Malcolm X to surrender his home and car, both of which are owned by the NOI.

 

03

09

Interviewed by Joe Durso of the New York WNDT-TV Channel 13 new program The World at Ten from 10:00 - 10:30 P.M., Channel 13 in New York; talks about split with Elijah Muhammad.

 

03

10

Tells Ebony magazine that the Black Muslim leaders have "got to kill me. They can't afford to let me live. . . I know where the bodies are buried. And if they press me, I'll exhume some."

 

03

10

The NOI sends Malcolm a certified letter requesting that he return all NOI property, including the house in East Elmhurst.

 

03

11

Sends telegram to Elijah Muhammad stating that actions are necessary because of pressures from within NOI; Malcolm X also releases copy of telegram to the press.

 1964

03

12

Calls 11:00 A.M., press conference at Park Sheraton Hotel, at which he issues copy of his March 8 statement and his March 11 telegram to Elijah Muhammad. Holds press conference in Tapestry Suite of Park Sheraton Hotel, New York; audience of six hears Malcolm X read a prepared statement and a telegram he sent to Elijah Muhammad on March 11; announce a restricted meeting at 8:30 PM on March 15 at the George Washington Carver Club in New York.

 TOP

03

16

Certificate of incorporation is filed for MMI. Appears in court and pleads not guilty for speeding violation.

 

03

18

Malcolm X speaks at Harvard University Leverette House Forum.

 

03

19

Malcolm X interviewed by A.B. Spellman.

 

03

20

Appears on Joe Rainey's phone-in radio show, Listening Post, broadcast out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on station WDAS.

 

03

23

Sends six followers to meet with leaders of Elijah Muhammad's mosque in New York.

 

03

24

Speaks on "Bob Kennedy Show" on WBZ, Boston, from 6:30 - 8:00 P.M.; subject is "Negro--Separation and Supremacy" (according to March 25 informant's report; clarifies statement concerning death of President Kennedy.

 

03

26

Meets Martin Luther King Jr., face to face, for the first and only time, after a King news conference in the U.S. Capitol.

 

04

03

Malcolm debates Louis Lomax in Cleveland and delivers speech, "The Ballet of the Bullet" at symposium sponsored by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

 

04

08

Malcolm speaks at the Militant Labor Forum. "The Black Revolution"

 

04

08

The NOI files eviction proceedings against Malcolm. He answers them on April 13; hearing is set for April 17 but is postponed twice, first until May 26 and then until June 3.

 

04

12

Malcolm speaks in Detroit, "The Ballot or the Bullet"

 

04

12

Announces at MMI rally that is is preparing for a three-week African tour.

 

04

13

Malcolm leaves on trip under the name of Malik El-Shabazz, he flies first to Frankfurt, Germany

 

04

19

Malcolm goes on to Mecca

 

04

20

Writes of his pilgrimage to Mecca in a letter: states that many white people he met during the pilgrimage displayed a spirit of unity and brotherhood that provided him a new, positive insight into race relations; in Islam, he now feels, lies the power to overcome racial antagonism and to obliterate it from the heart of white America.

 

04

21

Honored as a guest of the state by Saudi Arabia's Prince Faisal (Apr 21-30).

 1964

04

30

Flies to Beirut to speak at Sudanese Cultural Center, then back to Cairo; travels by rail to Alexandria, where he boards airplane to Nigeria (until 5-6-64).

 TOP 

05

06

Malcolm arrives in Lagos. Appears on various Nigerian radio and television programs (until May 10).

 

05

08

New York Times reports on a letter written by Malcolm while in Africa; article caption reads: "Malcolm X Pleased by White Attitude on Trip to Mecca."

 

05

08

Malcolm speaks at Ibadan University sponsored by the National Union of Nigerian Students. An enthusiastic audience of approximately 500 attend.

 

05

10

Malcolm sends letter from Lagos Nigeria.

 

 

 

Flies to Accra, Ghana, invited by the Marxist Forum, a new student organization at the University of Ghana.

 

05

11

Malcolm sends letter from Accra, Ghana

 

05

12

Press conference at Press Club in Accra

 

05

13

Malcolm speaks at Marxist Forum, University of Ghana at Legon "Will Africa Ignite America's Racial Power Keg"

 

05

14

Malcolm tours and lectures in Accra, Ghana addresses the Ghanian parliament on May 14.

 

05

15

Has audience with President Kwame Nkrumah, which Malcolm describes as his highest in all of Africa; that afternoon addresses two hundred students at the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute in Winneba.

 

05

17

Flies to Monrovia, Liberia, then to Dakar, Senegal, and from there to Morocco.

 

05

17

Encounters Cassius Clay at Hotel in Accra. Meeting is awkward because of Clay's continued loyalty to Elijah Muhammad.

 

05

19

Thirty-ninth birthday; arrives in Algiers. Warrant issued for his arrest at 12:30 P.M. for failing to appear at May 19 trial for a speeding summons.

 

05

21

Malcolm X returns to New York from visit to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, arriving at New York's Kennedy International Airport.

 

05

22

New York Times article appears titled "Malcolm Says He Is Backed Abroad."

 

05

23

Malcolm debates Louis Lomax in Chicago; on "The Negro Revolt," during which Malcolm X states that he has somewhat changed his mind regarding the white man. Appears on "Kup's Show" on Channel 7 in Chicago; states that many whites want to help the struggle of the Negro.

 1964

05

29

Malcolm speaks at the Militant Labor Force "The Harlem Hate Gang Scare."

 TOP

06

04

Radio station WDAS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, interviews Malcolm X regarding his break with the NOI.

 

06

07

MMI sponsors public rally at Audubon Ballroom in New York. In answer to a question from the audience, Malcolm states that Elijah Muhammad is the father of six illegitimate children.

 

06

08

Indicates to CBS that six women are involved in Elijah Muhammad's scandal. On the "Barry Gray Show" at 11:40 P.M. on radio station WMCA in New York, states that he makes no distinction between Governor Wallace of Alabama and President Johnson.

 

06

09

Interviewed on The Mike Wallace News Program at 11:00 P.M., states that there are some good white people.

 

06

12

Anonymous caller at 1:40 P.M., says that Malcolm X will be "bumped off."

 

 

 

Interviewed on WEEI (Boston) radio program, "Conversation for Peace," from 2:40 to 5:00 P.M.; states that he broke with the NOI because of moral problem; he also speaks about Elijah Muhammad's illegitimate children. Speaks on WMEX (Boston) radio program from 10:00 P.M., to 1:00 A.M.

 

06

15

NOI eviction trial against Malcolm X ends at 1:30 P.M.; ten MMI and fifty NOI members are present, but no incidents occur; Malcolm X does not request police protection.

1964

06

16

New York Herald Tribune reports that Malcolm X is under protection of police and bodyguards because of anonymous telephone threats to wire service and newspaper that he would be shot if he appeared in court for his eviction trial; nevertheless, Malcolm X testifies at Queens County Civil Court. Eviction trial ends at 1:30 P.M.; judge reserves sentence.

  TOP

06

20

Malcolm on Long John Nebel Radio Show.

 

06

21

At MMI rally, Malcolm X calls Civil Rights Bill a "farce" and mentions emergence of a new group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

 

06

25

On Bob Kennedy's (Boston) radio show, "Contact", Malcolm X states that struggle for civil rights is struggle for human rights.

 

06

26

New York Post publishes open letter from Malcolm X to Elijah Muhammad calling for an end to hostilities between them.

 

06

28

Announces the formation of the OAAU (Organization of Afro-American Unity), which will be committed to doing "whatever is necessary to bring the Negro struggle from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights.

 

06

30

Malcolm sends telegram to Martin Luther King and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) about the Saint Augustine attacks; offers assistance on behalf of civil rights movement; states that "on King's word" he would send some brothers to give the KKK "a taste of its own medicine." Speaks in Omaha, Nebraska, with "considerable tolerance toward other Negro rights groups"; Omaha World-Heraldreports on establishment of the OAAU, an organization committed to doing "whatever is necessary to bring the Negro struggle from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights."

1964

07

03

Reports to police a possible case of assault and battery on him by two black men at 11:30 P.M. in front of his house in East Elmhurst. Police guard his home until 4:00 P.M., the following day.

  TOP

07

04

Malcolm on WLIB radio panel with George Goodman, Geroge Schuyler, and Allan Morrison.

 

07

05

On July 5, four black men with knives approach him in front of his house as he steps into his car.

 

07

05

Malcolm speaks at the 2nd OAAU rally.

 

07

06

Using the name Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm X purchases one-way ticket to Cairo via London for departure on July 9.

 

07

07

Reports to police in New York that an attempt on his life was made that day.

 

07

09

Malcolm leaves on trip to Cairo via London under the name of Malik El-Shabazz; stays until 11-24-64.

 

07

17

Malcolm meets with the Rector of Al Axhar University in Cairo, Sheik Abdel Rahman Tag, Attends African Summit Conference as representative of the OAAU; appeals to the delegates of the thirty-four African nations to bring the cause of the twenty-two million black people in the United States before the United Nations. Distributes a press release on OAAU letterhead on behalf of twenty-two million Afro-Americans in the United States.

 

08

04

At a banquet in Alexandria, Egypt, addresses more than six hundred Muslim students representing seventy three different African and Asian countries.

 

08

17

Malcolm speaks to the OAAU in Cairo, Egypt.

 

08

21

Attends the second African Summit Conference in Cairo.

 1964

09

01

In New York, Civil Court Judge Maurice Wahl issues order that Malcolm X must vacate residence in East Elmhurst by January 31, 1965.

 TOP

09

02

Assistant Attorney General Yeagley requests that Hoover investigate Malcolm X's actions to see whether they violate the Logan Act.

 

09

12

"I'm Talking To You, White Man: An Autobiography by Malcolm X" is printed in theSaturday Evening Post.

 

09

 

Malcolm tours Africa:: by mid October he has visited eleven heads of state, and addressed most of their parliaments; for another five weeks he will continue his tour "to better acquaint himself with the problems facing the continent," as he says in a speech in Lagos.

 

10

03

Addresses five to six hundred students in Addis Ababa.

1964

10

16

Attorney General Lefkowitz requests that Yeagley use contacts in U.S. government to locate Malcolm X, so he can testify in a New York NOI trial.

  TOP

10

18

Flies from Dar es Salaam to Kenya with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta and Ugandan Milton Obote.

 

10

21

Malcolm meets with Babu in Dar as Salaam, Tanzania.

 

10

29

Visits Lagos and observes that factionalism is a major problem in Africa.

 

11

13

Leaves Conakry, French West Africa.

 

11

23

Malcolm speaks in Paris

 

11

24

Malcolm return to New York at 6:41 P.M.; greeted by sixty MMI and OAAU members.

 

11

28

Malcolm on WMCA, the Barry Gray Show, panel discuss crisis in the Congo.

 

11

29

Malcolm speaks at OAAU homecoming rally, remarks that he will travel to London and Oxford.

 

11

30

Flies to London for an Oxford Union debate on December 3; he speaks for the motion that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."

 1964

12

03

Malcolm debates at Oxford University, England.

 TOP

12

07

In Chicago, Captain Raymond Sharrieff of NOI issues threat to Malcolm X.

 

12

12

Speaks at HARYOU (Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited)-ACT Forum in Harlem.

 

12

13

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally with Dick Gregory, Babu, and reads a message from Che Guervara, five hundred attend.

 

12

16

Malcolm speaks at Harvard Law School Forum

 

12

20

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally with Fannie Lou Hammer on African natural resources.

 

 

 

At Harlem rally, supports Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

 

12

27

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally

 

 

 

Malcolm on Community Corner Radio Program with Bernier Bass.

 

12

28

On the "Les Crane Television Show" in New York, Malcolm X advocates armed self-defense.

 

12

31

Amiliah born (Malcolm's fourth daughter).

1965

01

01

Urges young people to "think for yourself" in speech at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem to a SNCC sponsored group of high school students from McComb, Mississippi.

 TOP 

01

03

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally.

 

01

07

Malcolm speaks at Militant Labor Forum "Prospects for Freedom in 1965."

 

01

10

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally.

 

01

12

Registers at Hilton Hotel in New York under M. Khalil.

 

01

17

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally.

 

01

18

Interview with Jack Barnes and Barry Sheppard, leaders of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA); Malcolm X will approve final text before it appears in the March/April issue of Young Socialist.

 

01

19

Interviewed by Pierre Berton on his television show in Toronto, Canada.

 

01

24

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally (Afro-American History)

 

01

26

Dartmouth College Radio WDCR interview in Hanover, NH.

 

01

28

Radio interview with Harry Ring on WBAI in New York.

 

 

 

Flies to Los Angeles and meets with attorney Gladys Towles Root and two former NOI secretaries who are filing paternity suits against Elijah Muhammad.

 

01

29

Testifies before Illinois Attorney General, who is investigating NOI activities.

 

01

30

In Chicago, records "Kup's Show," which airs early the next morning.

 

01

31

Malcolm speaks at OAAU rally (Ballot or the bullet)

1965

02

04

Travels to Selma, Alabama, where the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) is involved in a campaign for blacks' voting rights; speaks at Brown's Chapel AME Church.

  TOP

02

05

Leaves for London at 8:11 P.M., with a ticket for Paris, Geneva, and back to New York.

 

02

07

Malcolm arrives in England.

 

02

08

Addresses the First Congress of the Council of African Organizations in London.

 

02

09

Flies to Paris, but is refused entry by French government officials; returns to London.

 

02

11

Delivers speech entitled "The oppressed masses of the world cry out for action against the common oppressor" at the London School of Economics.

 

02

13

Flies back to New York.

 

02

14

Malcolm's house in East Elmhurst is firebombed in the early morning at 2:46 A.M.

 

02

14

Malcolm flies to Detroit at 9:30 A.M., Registers at Statler Hilton Hotel in Detroit at 11:30 A.M. Interviewed by WYXZ-TV at 4:00 P.M., address the First Annual Dignity Projection and Scholarship Award ceremony sponsored by the Afro-American Broadcasting and Recording Company at the Ford Auditorium: it is Malcolm's last major speech (morning). Speaks at Detroit rally.

 

 

 

Malcolm speaks in Harlem (evening).

 

02

15

Six hundred people attend OAAU rally from 8:15 -10:15 P.M., at Audubon Ballroom; Benjamin X opens; Malcolm X speaks of February 14 firebombing and NOI conspiracy with KKK.

 

02

18

Malcolm's family is evicted from home at 9:00 A.M.; moves belongings at 1:00 P.M.

 

 

 

Malcolm speaks at Columbia University "The Black Revolution and its Effect Upon the Negroes of the Western Hemisphere."

 

 

 

Malcolm on WINS radio with Aubrey Barnett, and others.

 

02

20

In a telephone conversation with Alex Haley, Malcolm says that "the more I keep thinking about this thing, the things that have been happening lately, I'm not at all sure it's the Muslims. I know what they can do, and what they can't, and they can't do some of the stuff Recently going on. . . The more I keep thinking about what happened to me in France, I think I'm going to quit saying it's the Muslims."

 

02

20

After an OAAU business meeting in the evening, Malcolm refuses his friend Earl Grant's invitation to spend the night at his apartment: "You have a family," says Malcolm. "I don't want anyone hurt on my account. I always knew it would end like this."

 

02

21

At 3:10 P.M., just after he has begun to address an OAAU rally at the Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm is shot several times; a black male later identified as Talmadge Hayer (a.k.a. Thomas Hagan) is arrested. Reuben X charged with felonious assault on Hayer and possession of a deadly weapon; Malcolm is pronounced DOA at Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

1965

 

 

Martin Luther King, Jr., sends telegram to Betty Shabazz, expressing his sadness over "the shocking and tragic assassination of your husband. While we did not always see eye to eye on methods to solve the race problem, I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.

  TOP

02

22

Elijah Muhammad denies that he or the NOI had anything to do with the slaying of Malcolm X, in an interview on Chicago radio station WVON, he states his "shock and surprise" at the murder.

 

02

23

James Farmer, CORE Director states that Malcolm X murder was "a political act, with international implications".

 

02

24

Muhammad Ali asserts that he will not go into hiding because of fears of reprisal in the aftermath of Malcolm X's assassination.

 

02

25

FBI removes Malcolm X from its Security Index.

 

02

26

Norman 3X Butler arrested at 3:00 A.M. for the murder of Malcolm X; three witnesses place him at Audubon Ballroom.

 

02

27

9:20 A.M., Malcolm's body is moved from the Unity Funeral Home in Harlem to Bishop Alvin S. Child's Faith Temple Church of God in Christ at 1763 Amsterdam Avenue for the funeral services.

 

02

27

9:50 A.M., services began which are presided over by playwright-actor Ossie Davis; approximately fifteen hundred people attend the services, five hundred of them outside the church itself.

 

 

 

11:10 A.M., procession to Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale.

 

 

 

11:35 A.M., arrives at cemetery.

 

 

 

12:45 P.M., graveside service concludes.

 

 

 

Witness identifies Hayer and Butler as two of the assassins.

1965

03

01

Betty Shabazz meets with New York police detectives investigating the assassination.

 

11

05

The New York Times heralds the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by Alex Haley, as "an eloquent statement."

 

 

 

Betty Shabazz gives birth to twin daughters, Malaak and Malikah.

1966

01

12

The trial for the murder of Malcolm X opens.

 

 


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PUB: Barrow Street Book Contest

Announcing the 2011

Barrow Street Book Contest

Download guidelines here. 

Judged by D.A. Powell, the Barrow Street Press Book Contest award will be given for the best previously unpublished manuscript of poetry in English. The winner will receive book publication by Barrow Street Press, and $1000.00. Deadline June 30, 2011.

THE 2011 BARROW STREET PRESS BOOK CONTEST

 

The Barrow Street Press Book Contest award will be given for the best previously unpublished manuscript of poetry in English. The winner will receive book publication by Barrow Street Press, and $1000.00.

 

Judge: D.A. Powell*

 

Deadline: June 30, 2011

 

Fee:  $25.00

 

If entrants would like to receive a copy of the winning book, please include a book mailer with $2.75 postage. Thank you.

 

*manuscripts by current and past students of D.A. Powell will not be considered

 

 

GUIDELINES* *(note – send to Rhode Island Barrow Street address, not New York City)

 

1) Submit a 50 - 70 page unpublished manuscript of original poetry in English. Include acknowledgement page for published poems.

 

2) The manuscript should be typed, single-spaced, on one side of the page only, on white 8 1⁄2" x 11" paper. Clear photocopies are acceptable. Please do not send your only copy, as manuscripts cannot be returned. If the manuscript is illegible or not a clear copy in any way, it will not be considered and your check will be returned.

 

3) Include two (2) title pages. The author's name, address, and telephone number should appear on the first title page only, and should not appear elsewhere in the manuscript. The second title page should just contain the title and nothing else.

 

4) Include SASE for notification of contest results.

 

5) Please include a check for $25.00, payable to Barrow Street.

 

6) Send entries to:

Barrow Street PO Box 1558 Kingston, RI 02881

 

 

Please do not send your manuscripts to the NYC address.

 

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PUB: poetry contest for Emerging Poets

Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets

We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2010 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets is Tomás Q. Morin. His winning group of three poems can be read here and will be published in the September 2011 issue.

$1,000 and publication in Boulevard awarded for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press.

 

RULES
The poems may be a sequence or unrelated.  All entries must be postmarked by June 1, 2011.  Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but previously accepted or published work is ineligible.  Entries will be judged by the editors of Boulevard magazine.  No one editorially or financially affiliated with Boulevard can enter the contest.  Send typed manuscript(s) and SAS postcard for acknowledgment of receipt to:  Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest, PMB 325, 6614 Clayton Road, Richmond Heights, MO 63117.  No manuscripts will be returned.

 

Entry fee is $15 per group of three poems, and $15 for each additional group of three poems.  Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Boulevard (one per author).  Make check payable to Boulevard.

 

Author's name, address, and telephone number, in addition to the titles of the three poems, should appear on page one of your first poem.  Please also include a 3 x 5 inch index card with your name, address, telephone number and the titles of your poems.

 

The winning poems will be published in the Fall 2010 or Spring 2011 issue of Boulevard.

 

All entries will be considered for publication and for payment at our regular rates.

 

These are the complete guidelines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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