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

00:04:51 When Malcolm would ascent the little platform, he didn't, he couldn't talk for the first four, five minutes.

00:05:55 Who is he to be equal with?

00:06:45 you never went back to where you were before.

00:07:52 To make his message clear, Malcolm used his own life as a lesson for all black Americans.

00:08:47 Well, to my understanding, the Ku Klux Klan burned down one of their homes in Omaha

00:09:28 but on the back of our property we had a wooded area

00:10:46 Three months after the Littles moved in, white neighbors took legal action to evict them.

00:12:17 In the city where we grew up, whites could refer to us as "those uppity niggers," or

00:14:04 Earl recruited new members.

00:14:50 The real names of our people were destroyed

00:15:46 And she may have been nursing him, 'cause she was at the table, and she fell asleep

00:16:53 And my father's death caused a great

00:17:21 So we were disciplined.

99:59:59 and all these people at the time out there who were just being made known to the rest of the black world.

99:59:59 And when I came home from school one day and she wasn't there

99:59:59 He made it possible that he knew what they wanted and he knew where to get it

99:59:59 If they wanted drugs, he knew where to get it.

99:59:59 Malcolm X had come into Boston and he had on his zoot suit with the wide-brim hat

99:59:59 The other gang members included his friend Malcolm Jarvis

99:59:59 you know.