During childhood, I wasn't aware that there was a segregation. White people just seemed very alien and strange to me.
Alice Walker
For Release
Black History Month 2005
THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET
Malcolm X
On April 3, 1964, fiery black nationalist and
Nation of Islam minister Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) gave his
famous speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” at Cory Methodist Church
in Cleveland, Ohio. His oratory was part of a symposium — “The Negro
Revolt: What Comes Next?” — sponsored by the Cleveland chapter of
the Congress of Racial Equality.
