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Ma co m XOffers HelpOMAHA, Neb 'AP — Mai- ;colm X, leader of a now civil i rights group he calls Afro- i American Unity says his organization has telegraphed the iiev ( Martin Luther King that it is lt;ready to send help to St An- I pustine, Fla . if the federalgovernment does not provide r aid. ]At a news conference in Oma- ha where he was born in 1925, (ftMalcolm X declared his people “are ready to give the Ku Klux Klan” a taste of its own meshcine in St. Augustine and Mis-;sissippi.“We can send enough help to get results,” Malcolm X said. “The day of turning the other cheek to those brute beasts isover.He said he docs rot advocate “initiating violence But only afew days ago President Johnson warned others that America would strike back if our interests were jeopardized. We feel the Negro should be prepared to defend his life and his property.tlt;I(I*It’s time to start swinging,” Malcolm X commented iA response to a question “‘The onlything that stops a man with ashotgun is another man with a shotgun.“It’s ridiculous to send our people into an area and tell them to be peaceful wheni they’re confronted there byi blue-eyed whites armed with themost vicious weapons imagin able
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Laurel Leader Call
Laurel, Mississippi, US
Thu, Jul 02, 1964
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