January 15, 1964
During visit with Cassius Clay at his fight camp in Miami, MX tells sports reporters that he will be reinstated with the NOI in ninety days, although he believes the case to be otherwise.
January 21, 1964
Returns to New York from week’s vacation with family at Cassius Clay’s home in Miami, Florida: Does not attend dinner sponsored by the FOI and MGT of Mosque No. 7 in New York; relaxes in Queens and works on a book about NOI [FBI airtel 1/21/64]. Has not publicly engaged in any NOI activity since being suspended by EM from NOI.
February 4, 1964
States that Bayard Rustin is “nothing but a homosexual” [FBI 2/5/64].
In Queens, New York, refuses comment on his suspension from the NOI but says it was his own fault and he is not bitter toward EM. Believes that so-called Negro leaders are incompetent to lead Negroes; affirms that he would have no objection to being contacted by the FBI regarding demonstrations or public affairs contemplated by the NOI [FBI 2/5/64].
February 10, 1964
Rift between MX and EM appears to be widening [FBI 2/10/64].
February 27, 1964
Allegedly leaves Hampton House in Miami but intends to return in March; says, “If you think Cassius Clay was loud, wait until I start talking in March” [FBI airtel 3/3/64].
February 1964
Former assistant to Malcolm at Mosque No. 7 informs him that he has been asked by a mosque official to wire MX’s car with a bomb.
March 6, 1964
Summons issued to MX for speeding on Triborough Bridge [FBI 5/19/64}.
March 8, 1964
New York Times carries article entitled “Malcolm X Splits With Muhammed.” MX plans to create “black nationalist party” and will cooperate with local civil rights actions in order to heighten political consciousness of Negroes.
March 9, 1964
Meeting between MX, E. Grant, and J. Warden to discuss incorporation of MMI (Muslim Mosque, Incorporated). Informant reports that EM has ordered MX to surrender his home and car, both of which are owned by the NOI [FBI airtel 3/12/64].
Appears on “The World At Ten” from 10:00-10:30 P.M.on WNDT Channel 13 in New York; talks about split with EM [FBI 3/11/64].
March 10, 1964
NOI member sends letter to MX requesting that he return all NOI property, including his home at 23–11 97th Street, East Elmhurst, Queens.
Tells Ebony magazine that Black Muslim leaders have “got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live. . . . I know where the bodies are buried. And if they press me, I’ll exhume some.”
NOI sends MX certified letter requesting that he and his family vacate the premises at 23–11 97th Street in East Elmhurst because the house was purchased and is owned by Muslim mosque No. 7.
March 11, 1964
Sends telegram to EM stating that actions are necessary because of pressures from within NOI; MX also releases copy of telegram to the press.
March 12, 1964
Calls 11:00 A.M. press conference at Park Sheraton Hotel, at which he issues copy of his March 8 statement and his March 11 telegram to EM.
Holds press conference in Tapestry Suite of Park Sheraton Hotel, New York; audience of sixty hears MX read a prepared statement and a telegram he sent to EM on March 11; announces a restricted meeting at 8:30 P.M. on March 15 at the George Washington Carver Club in New York [FBI 3/13/64].
March 16, 1964
Certificate of incorporation is filed for MMI.
Appears in court and pleads not guilty for speeding violation [FBI teletype 5/19/64].
March 18, 1964
Speaks at Leverett House, Harvard University, according to March 19 report by informant [FBI 4/3/64].
March 23, 1964
Sends six followers to meet with leaders of EM’s mosque in New York [FBI 3/27/64].
March 24, 1964
Speaks on “Bob Kennedy Show” on WBZ, Boston, from 6:30 –8:00 P.M.; subject is “Negro—Separation and Supremacy” (according to March 25 informant’s report; clarifies statement concerning death of President Kennedy [FBI 4/3/64].
March 26, 1964
Meets Martin Luther King, Jr. face-to-face for the first and only time after King news conference at U.S. Capitol.
April 3, 1964
Delivers speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” at Cleveland symposium sponsored by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality).
April 4, 1964
EM tells The New Crusader that MX’s failure to maintain silence during his suspension forced EM to extend the suspension.
April 8, 1964
NOI files eviction proceedings against MX; MX answers them on April 13; hearing is set for April 17 but is postponed twice, first until May 26 and then until June 3.
Delivers speech at a Militant Labor Forum in New York.
April 12, 1964
Announces at MMI rally that he is preparing for a three-week African tour, expecting to leave on April 16 [FBI teletype 4/14/64].
Delivers “Ballots or Bullets” speech in Detroit.
April 13–May 21, 1964
Travels abroad.
April 13, 1964
Answers a hearing set for April 17; hearing postponed until May 26, then until June 3, and again until June 15.
Leaves for Cairo, Egypt [FBI 1/20/65]. Departs JFK International Airport in New York at 7:00 P.M. under alias Malik El-Shabazz, according to informant’s report; flies on one-way ticket to Frankfurt, Cairo, Jedda, Cairo [FBI teletype 4/14/64].
April 20, 1964
After pilgrimage to Mecca, MX writes letter stating that many white people he met during his pilgrimage displayed a spirit of unity and brotherhood that provided him with a new, positive insight into race relations; in Islam, he now feels, lies the power to overcome racial antagonism and to obliterate it from the heart of white America. May 8 New York Times reports on a letter written by Malcolm while in Africa; article caption reads: “Malcolm X Pleased by White Attitude on Trip to Mecca” [FBI 1/20/65].
April 21–30, 1964
Prince Faisal, ruler of Arabia, honors MX as guest of the state.
April 30, 1964
Flies to Beirut; speaks at Sudanese Cultural Center on shortcomings and failures of American civil rights movement.
May 2–6, 1964
Flies back to Cairo and takes train to Alexandria, Egypt, where he boards airplane to Nigeria.
May 6–10, 1964
In Lagos, featured on Nigerian radio and television programs.
May 8, 1964
Sponsored by the National Union of Nigerian Students, MX speaks to an enthusiastic audience of approximately five hundred students at the University of Ibadan [FBI 1/20/65].
May 10, 1964
Flies to Accra, Ghana, invited by the Marxist Forum, a new student organization at the University of Ghana [FBI 1/20/65].
May 13, 1964
Delivers lecture entitled “Will Africa Ignite America’s Racial Powder Keg?” at the University of Ghana [FBI 1/20/65].
May 14, 1964
Addresses Ghanian parliament.
May 15, 1964
Meets Ghanian President Kwame Nkrumah and describes meeting as his highest single honor, not only in Ghana but in all of Africa; that afternoon addresses two hundred students at the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute in Winneba.
May 17, 1964
Encounters Cassius Clay at Hotel in Accra. Meeting is awkward because of Clay’s continued loyalty to EM.
May 17–18, 1964
Flies to Dakar, Senegal, then to Morocco.
May 19, 1964
Thirty-ninth birthday; arrives in Algiers. Warrant issued for his arrest at 12:30 P.M. for failing to appear at May 19 trial for a speeding summons [FBI teletype 5/19/64].
May 21, 1964
Arrives at New York’s Kennedy International Airport at 4:25 P.M. aboard Pan Am flight from Paris, France [FBI 5/22/64].
May 22, 1964
New York Times article appears titled “Malcolm Say
s He Is Backed Abroad” [FBI 5/22/64].
May 23, 1964
Debates Louis Lomax on “The Negro Revolt,” during which MX states that he has somewhat changed his mind regarding the white man [FBI 1/20/65].
Appears on “Kup’s Show” on Channel 7 in Chicago; states that many whites want to help the struggle of the Negro [FBI 1/20/65].
May 29, 1964
Speaks at Militant Labor Forum symposium.
June 4, 1964
Radio station WDAS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, interviews MX regarding his break with the NOI.
June 7, 1964
MMI sponsors public rally at Audubon Ballroom in New York. In answer to a question from the audience, Malcolm states that EM is the father of six illegitimate children.
June 8, 1964
Indicates to CBS that six women are involved in EM’s scandal [FBI 1/20/65]. On the “Barry Gray Show” at 11:40 P.M. on radio station WMCA in New York, states that he makes no distinction between Governor Wallace of Alabama and President Johnson [FBI 6/9/64].
June 9, 1964
On “Mike Wallace News Program” at 11:00 P.M. states that there are some good white people [FBI 1/20/64].
June 12, 1964
Anonymous caller at 1:40 P.M. says that MX will be “bumped off” [FBI 1/20/65].
Interviewed on WEEI (Boston) radio program, “Conversation for Peace,” from 2:40 to 5:00 P.M.; states that he broke with the NOI because of moral problem; he also speaks about EM’s illegitimate children [FBI 1/20/65].
Speaks on WMEX (Boston) radio program from 10:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. [FBI 1/20/65].
June 15, 1964
NOI eviction trial against MX ends at 1:30 P.M.; ten MMI and fifty NOI members are present, but no incidents occur; MX does not request police protection [FBI teletype 6/16/64].
June 16, 1964
New York Herald Tribune reports that MX is under protection of police and bodyguards because of anonymous telephone threats to wire service and newspaper that he would be shot if he appeared in court for his eviction trial; nevertheless, MX testifies at Queens County Civil Court.
Eviction trial ends at 1:30 P.M.; judge reserves sentence [FBI coded teletype 6/16/64].
June 21, 1964
At MMI rally, MX calls Civil Rights Bill a “farce” and mentions emergence of a new group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity [FBI 1/20/65].
June 25, 1964
On Bob Kennedy’s WBZ (Boston) radio show “Contact,” MX states that struggle for civil rights is struggle for human rights [FBI 1/20/65].
June 26, 1964
New York Post publishes open letter from MX to EM calling for an end to hostilities between them.
June 28, 1964
MX announces formation of OAAU.
June 30, 1964
Wires Martin Luther King, Jr. and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) about the Saint Augustine attacks; offers assistance on behalf of civil rights movement; states that “on King’s word” he would send some brothers to give the KKK “a taste of its own medicine” [FBI 1/20/65].
Speaks in Omaha, Nebraska, with “considerable tolerance toward other Negro rights groups”; Omaha World-Herald reports on establishment of the OAAU, an organization committed to doing “whatever is necessary to bring the Negro struggle from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights.”
July 3, 1964
Reports to police a possible case of assault and battery on him by two black men at 11:30 P.M. in front of his house in East Elmhurst. Police guard his home until 4:00 P.M. the following day; On July 5, four black men with knives approach him in front of his house as he steps into his car [FBI 1/20/65].
July 4, 1964
Panel discussion on WLIB in New York.
July 5, 1964
Orders to kill MX come through from Chicago. MX informed that he can take NOI to court if he wishes [FBI 1/20/65].
July 6, 1964
Using the name Malik El-Shabazz, MX purchases one-way ticket to Cairo via London for departure on July 9 [FBI 1/20/65].
July 7, 1964
Reports to police in New York that an attempt on his life was made that day [FBI 1/20/65].
July 9, 1964
Leaves for Cairo [FBI 11/25/65].
July 17, 1964
Attends African Summit Conference in Cairo as representative of OAAU. Appeals to delegates of the thirty-four African nations to bring the cause of black people in the United States before the United Nations. Distributes a press release on OAAU letterhead on behalf of twenty-two million Afro Americans in the United States [FBI 9/17/64].
July 20, 1964
Calls someone (a woman) from Cairo; says he will continue to travel [FBI teletype 7/21/64].
July 1964
Interviewed in Cairo.
August 4, 1964
At a banquet in Alexandria, Egypt, addresses more than six hundred Muslim students representing seventy-three different African and Asian countries [FBI teletype 8/7/64].
August 21, 1964
Attends the second African Summit Conference in Cairo.
September 1, 1964
Confidential source visits Alex Haley regarding book Haley just finished on MX [FBI 1/20/65].
In eviction suit brought by NOI against MX, civil court judge Maurice Wahl orders MX to vacate the $36,200 house he is occupying at 23–11 97th Street in East Elmhurst by January 31, 1965.
September 2, 1964
Assistant Attorney General Yeagley requests that Hoover investigate MX’s actions to see whether they violate the Logan Act [FBI letter 9/2/64].
September 12, 1964
First edition of MX autobiography published in Saturday Evening Post.
September 28, 1964
Yeagley informs FBI that if MMI is receiving funds from Arab or African governments, it will have to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act [1/20/65].
October 3, 1964
Addresses five to six hundred students in Addis Ababa [FBI 1/20/65].
October 16, 1964
Attorney General Lefkowitz requests that Yeagley use contacts in U.S. government to locate MX so he can testify in a New York NOI trial.
October 18, 1964
Flies from Dar es Salaam to Kenya with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta and Ugandan Milton Obote [FBI 1/20/65].
October 29, 1964
Visits Lagos and observes that factionalism is a major problem in Africa [FBI 1/20/65].
October 1964–November 1964
By mid-October MX has visited eleven countries, talked with eleven heads of state, and addressed most of their parliaments; will continue his tour of Africa for another five weeks “to better acquaint himself with the problems facing the continent,” as he says in a speech in Lagos.
November 13, 1964
Leaves Conakry, French West Africa [FBI 1/20/65].
November 24, 1964
Returns to New York at 6:41 P.M.; greeted by sixty MMI and OAAU members [FBI 1/20/65].
November 28, 1964
Panel discussion on WMCA in New York about crisis in the Congo.
November 29, 1964
Remarks at OAAU reception that he will travel to London and Oxford [FBI 1/20/65].
November 30, 1964
Leaves for London [FBI 1/20/65].
December 1964
Fourth daughter, Amiliah, is born.
December 3, 1964
Debates at Oxford University; defends use of extremism and “any means necessary to bring about freedom” [FBI 1/20/65].
December 7, 1964
In Chicago, Captain Raymond Sharrieff of NOI issues threat to MX [FBI 12/15/64].
December 12, 1964
Speaks at HARYOU (Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited)-ACT Forum in Harlem.
December 13, 1964
Five hundred people attend OAAU public meeting, at which MX speaks about Congo situation [FBI 1/20/65].
December 16, 1964
Speaks at Harvard Law School forum.
At OAAU rally at Audubon, MX speaks on African natural resources [FBI 1/20/65].
At Harlem rally, supports Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
December 28, 1964
On the “Les Crane Television Show” in New York, MX advocates armed self-defense [FBI 1/20/65].
January 1, 1965
Urges young people to “think for yourself” in speech at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem to a SNCC-sponsored group of high school students from McComb, Mississippi.
January 7, 1965
Delivers speech at a Militant Labor Forum in New York.
January 12, 1965
Registers at Hilton Hotel in New York under alias M. Khalil [FBI 1/20/65].
January 18, 1965
Interview with Jack Barnes and Barry Sheppard, leaders of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA); MX will approve final text before it appears in the March/April issue of Young Socialist.
January 19, 1965
Pierre Berton interviews MX on his television show in Toronto.
January 24, 1965
Speaks about Afro-American history at OAAU rally.
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