Malcolm X by Clayborne Carson

keep us on guard today.
    The late Mr. Garvey came into this country awakening the downtrodden so-called Negroes to the importance of SELF, and trying to instill a Black Nationalistic spirit into us, but most of us were busy worshipping the “dead leaders” of the past, and some of us were IGNORANTLY waiting for these “dead leaders” to return from the grave, therefore we rejected the late Mr. Garvey and helped our white Christian slavemasters plot his downfall.
    Now that Mr. Garvey is dead, again HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. Many who were Mr. Garvey’s greatest enemies are today his strongest advocates and defenders.
    Tribute is still being paid to a DEAD Moses. Worship is being wasted on a DEAD Jesus. Millions honor a DEAD Muhammad. And, many respect and revere a DEAD Mr. Garvey.
    All of these “followers” are seemingly sincere and are supposed to be intelligent. Yet, all are so busy whooping and hollering over THE DEAD, like others in history they are failing to see the greatest LIVING EMANCIPATOR and TRUTH BEARER that the world has ever known, who is right here in America today in the person of the Honorable ELIJAH MUHAMMAD.
    This is the one whom Moses, Jesus and Muhammad all spoke of who would be here in America in the “last days” of the“white world” with a Divine Message of NAKED TRUTH which would give “life” (ISLAM) back to the long lost so-called Negroes, set us FREE from the clutches of our enemies and restore us back among Our Own Kind.
    Did not Mr. Garvey declare that a “greater than he” was coming to carry Mr. Garvey’s uncompleted work into completion? Must we who were faithful followers of the late Mr. Garvey make the same mistake of the others in history, and wait until after this great man, Messenger ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, is gone before we too recognize him fearlessly and uncompromisingly by his works that HE IS FOR US?
    Why must we always worship DEAD men? Why must we always follow DEAD leaders? It is because our ignorance has slowed our thinking ability so much that our minds can’t keep up with events, and by the time we realize what is happening the EMANCIPATOR is here and gone before we are mentally capable of recognizing him.
    We should show forth greater wisdom TODAY. Let us forget the DEAD past and start concentrating all efforts on the LIVING PRESENT. “Let the DEAD bury the DEAD.”

SECTION 4
    July 15, 1958–July 21, 1959
REPORTS:
1. July 15, 1958. New York
    2. November 19, 1958. New York
    3. May 19, 1959. New York
    4. July 13, 1959. SAC, New York to Director. Airtel
    5. July 16 and 21, 1959. Memo. Special Agent in Charge (SAC), New York to Director
    This section begins with a July 2, 1958, FBI approval of a recommendation from the New York office that Malcolm be designated as “a key figure.” This designation meant that the FBI would keep “up-to-date Security Index cards on him separately,” an indication that the Bureau considered the Nation of Islam to be at least a potential threat to the nation’s internal security.
    The new designation reflected Malcolm’s increasing visibility as a Muslim spokesperson and the FBI’s awareness of Malcolm’s growing involvement in international politics. A July 13 memorandum informed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that Malcolm met with Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt to set up talks between Nasser and Elijah Muhammad. Two other memos, dated July 16 and 21, contain the “substantially verbatim account” of parts one and three of Mike Wallace’s “The Hate That Hate Produced,” which aired during the week of July 13–17, 1959. The text was sent to the Detroit Bureau “in view of the fact that NOI parochial schools in Chicago and Detroit were mentioned.” Part one contains Louis Lomax’s interview with Malcolm and part three contains an interview with NAACP leader Roy Wilkins, who claimed not to know who Elijah