Malcolm X: Make It Plain

00:00:01 [music]

00:01:24 And there were many ways, where what really motivated us

00:02:25 When he said it in a very strong fashion, in this very manly fashion, in this fashion that says

00:03:10 Tell him how, what kind of hell you've been catching, and let him know that if he's not ready to clean his house up, if he's not ready to clean his house up

00:04:42 So he established his base, you might say, in front of Elder Michaux's bookstore.

00:05:51 That's not saying, you know we're just as equal with him.

00:06:43 once you heard him speak

00:07:45 "One day you will, Sister. One day you will, Sister", and he smiled.

00:08:44 I imagine about a year old.

00:09:21 No one has lived more so in the society of whites than I.

00:10:34 and they had a four-acre parcel with a small house on it

00:12:02 Malcolm's father, Earl Little, accused local whites of setting the fire.

00:13:25 With membership in the hundreds of thousands, Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association sought closer ties with African countries.

00:14:40 Would you mind telling me what your father's last name was?

00:15:32 Malcolm was six years old when his mother had a premonition.

00:16:42 As a matter of fact

00:17:11 and get up in the morning and all this.

99:59:59 you know

99:59:59 and sending him to a white community 10 miles away.

99:59:59 Everybody was talking about Malcolm.

99:59:59 He was a man who, in the eighth grade in Michigan

99:59:59 It was red and he had pictures of him and Billie Holiday

99:59:59 She didn't like them telling her what she could do and what she couldn't do.

99:59:59 Well, he had the reputation as being a hustler and he was a street person