This has a somewhat detailed chronology for Malcolm X
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Charles T. Payne, 83, a great uncle to Sen Barack Obama, D-III, is seen during an interview with ... Chicago’s library. Payne is proud of his great-nephew, ...
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Uncle Charlie proud of Obama
‘Attention of flub astonishing’
CHICAGO, July 24, (AP): Charles T. Payne had his first close brush with his¬tory at the end of World War II, when his infantry division liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp in eastern Germany.
Now 83, Payne is experiencing a sec¬ond brush as the great-uncle of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Payne spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday as Obama, on the other side of the world, prepared to visit the Yad Vashem national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
In May, Obama mentioned “Uncle Charlie” at a meeting with veterans but mistakenly said Payne had helped liber¬ate Auschwitz, when he should have said Buchenwald. Bloggers seized on the error and the Republican Party demanded an explanation.
Obama’s campaign corrected the mistake the next day. Soviet forces lib-erated Auschwitz as they marched across Poland in January 1945.
Payne, with an Obama button pinned to his shirt, told the AP he was “truly astonished” by the attention
paid to Obama’s flub. The brother of Obama’s maternal grandmother, Payne figures Obama heard the story wrong from his grandparents, “whose grasp of geography wasn’t always the firmest.” He said at the time he asked friends if he should “try to set the record straight,” but that they advised him to ignore it.
Payne said he didn’t want to say any-thing to embarrass the Obama cam¬paign and minimized his role in the lib-eration of Ohrdruf.
Heroic
“I have no heroic story to tell,” he said. “I was just there.”
He had seen plenty of death during his two years in the Army, but the cru¬elty of what he witnessed at Ohrdruf appalled him. In the courtyard, he saw lying dead “a circle of the inmates in their rags, and you could see they were mostly near starvation. They were there with their tin cups like they were called to get food, then had been machine gunned.”
In a shed, he saw bodies stacked like cord wood. The survivors, many near starvation, were “nothing but just skin
over bones with nothing, no flesh at all.” He said the 1993 movie “Schindler’s List” was “very good, but it didn’t begin to show the desperate plight of the prisoners. I guess in real life you can’t really starve people next to death in order to make a movie.”
After the war, Payne went to college in Kansas and then to graduate school at the University of Chicago, where Obama would later lecture on constitu¬tional law. He later became interested in computers and how they could be used in libraries. He retired at age 70 as assistant director of the University of Chicago’s library.
Payne is proud of his great-nephew, who is prominently displayed in family photos.
“He’s truly an astounding young man and always has been,” he said.
As attention turns to the Holocaust with Obama’s expected visit to the Israeli memorial on Wednesday, Payne reflected on the lessons of history.
“Clearly to me it’s proof that there’s no limit to what a man will do to man and what government out of control will do,” he said. “I guess we need to be on our guard eternally.”
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Has it ever been determined where Stanley Ann was when the fall semester at UH started in 1960?
Could she have been in NY?
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/2002/mx_1990/documents.htm
Castro speaking about Malcolm X
This event was September 1960 when Castro visited the UN.
“....I always remember when I met with Malcolm X at the hotel “Teresa”, because he was the one who gave us support and made it possible for us to be accommodated there. We had two choices: one was the patio in the United Nations; when I told this to the Secretary General he was horrified at the thought of a delegation camping in tents there; and then we received Malcolm X’s offer, he had talked to one of our comrades, and I said: “That is the place, Hotel ‘Teresa’.” And there we went, so I have personal memories of him. ...”
From what I have found during my months of research, Ann Dunham never applied to the University of Chicago, that was yet another myth passed on.
This sentence found in a really quick search notes there is no documentation that Ann ever applied to University of Chicago:
There is no documentation that she ever applied the University of Chicago.
Found at the following site:
As mentioned this was from a really quick search done before I start another job, if you wish I will find confirmation tomorrow.
Also from some searching today and earlier this evening I found that the student airlift left Kenya September 5, 1959 and spent a period of time(IIRC it as at least two weeks) orienting the students at a central location before they went on to the schools they would be attending. Knowing this means that UH had a late start to their school years.
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S. Sider Had 1st-Row View Of Real Story
Chicago Sun-Times - Sunday, November 8, 1992
Author: Lee Bey
Former Chicago schoolteacher Christine Johnson won’t go see the new Malcolm X movie premiering this month.
She doesn’t need to, she says: She was a friend of Malcolm X and had a front row seat to the last five years of his life.
“Yes, I knew him,” said Johnson, 83, a South Side resident. “Whenever Malcolm came to town, he would call me. I don’t know what Spike Lee has in his (movie) but everybody these days are saying `I knew Malcolm ,’ but they didn’t.”
Johnson, who changed her name to Catherine X during her stint with the Nation of Islam, met Malcolm X in New York in 1960 . He let Johnson set up black history exhibits at Nation of Islam events.
And when the organization needed a principal for its University of Islam, then located at 54th and Greenwood, Malcolm X selected Johnson.
They talked often by telephone between 1960 and Malcolm ‘s death in February, 1965, she said.
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BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY VOTING RIGHTS ACT, WORDS OF MALCOLM X ARE LEGACIES OF ‘60S 25 YEARS AFTER SLAYING, ACTIVIST IS HEARD ANEW
Detroit Free Press (MI) - Sunday, February 18, 1990
Author: CONSTANCE C. PRATER Free Press Staff Writer
EXCERPT
Said Dr. Ali Mazrui, a former University of Michigan political science professor, “Some things are changing, but many of the evils are still there.” Mazrui, author and moderator of “The Africans,” the 1986 Public Broadcasting Service TV series, teaches at the State University of New York in Binghamton.
Mazrui said he met Malcolm X in 1960 , when the professor was a graduate student at Columbia University in New York.
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Malcolm X ‘s Controversial Legacy ... Movie Sparks Eagerness, Anxiety
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sunday, November 15, 1992
Author: Lori Teresa Yearwood ; Of the Post-Dispatch Staff
EXCERPT
Alice Windom, coordinator for the Bush Center for Law, Policy and Social Change at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, was among the activists who endorsed the letter of concern sent to Lee. She first met Malcolm X when she heard him speak at a Muslim mosque in Chicago in 1960 .
The way he spoke forced her to think about the reality of her life at age 24 - about how white landlords slammed doors in her face when she went apartment hunting because they ‘’didn’t rent to coloreds,’’ and about how she couldn’t try on hats in certain department stores because that was a privilege for whites alone.
‘’I just sat there and thought how proud I was that Malcolm was standing there and telling the truth, not sucking up to white people at all,’’ Windom said.
Two years later, Windom was so weary of life in America that she said she was ‘’just waiting for some white person to step on my foot so I could knock their head off.’’ She moved to Africa.
She crossed paths with Malcolm X again when he traveled to Ghana, in western Africa, to garner support in his effort to charge America with ‘’violating the human rights’’ of blacks.
Windom was working for the United Nations and helped him establish ties with officials in Ghana. The two became close friends.
‘’He was easy to talk to because he didn’t put on airs at all,’’ said Windom, now 56. ‘’It showed in the way he carried himself - not at all majestically - but rather in a lanky, imperfect way. He was 6 feet 4 inches, you know, but he wasn’t intimidating. He looked you in the eye and listened to what you said.’’
At night, Malcolm X often would gather Windom and other U.N. employees to talk about the condition of blacks in the United States. The civil rights leader had been separated from the Nation of Islam and was working to establish his own activist organizations, the Muslim Mosques Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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SHABAZZ ACCUSED IN MURDER PLOT// MALCOLM X ‘S DAUGHTER HIRED HIT MAN TO KILL FARRAKHAN, U.S. SAYS
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - Friday, January 13, 1995
Author: BYLINE: Mike Sweeney, Staff Writer
One of the late Malcolm X ‘s daughters was released in her own recognizance Thursday in Minneapolis after she was indicted in an alleged plot to kill Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the black separatist Nation of Islam.
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Shabazz, 34, didn’t speak in her appearance before Lebedoff except to acknowledge she had seen the charges against her and to state her birth date - Dec. 25, 1960 .
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MALCOLM X
Chicago Sun-Times - Sunday, November 8, 1992
Author: Lee Bey
May 19, 1925: Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, Neb., to Louise Little, a native of Grenada, and the Rev. Earl Little, a Georgia native.
1929: The Little home is burned down, apparently by racists. The family moves to East Lansing, Mich.
1931: Earl Little is murdered, presumably by a gang of whites.
1936: Louise Little is committed to a mental institution.
1940: Malcolm moves to Boston to live with an older half-sister.
1941: He moves to New York and works at Small’s Paradise Bar, where he meets a young Redd Foxx and becomes known as “Detroit Red.”
1943: Malcolm , immersed in the Harlem street scene, gets addicted to drugs and gambling and becomes a gun-toting hustler.
1946: He is sentenced to 10 years in prison for burglary.
1947: He learns about Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam while behind bars and sees a vision of the movement’s founder, Wallace D. Fard.
1952: Malcolm is paroled from prison, goes to Detroit to work in a furniture store and becomes active in the Nation of Islam, traveling to Chicago to visit Muhammad. Malcolm changes last name to “ X .”
1953: Malcolm X is named assistant minister of the nation’s Detroit Temple No. One.
1954: He starts temples in Philadelphia and Boston and then is sent to New York City.
1958: Malcolm X marries Betty X . Their first child, Attilah, is born.
1959: Nation of Islam becomes nationally known when a documentary, “The Hate That Hate Produced,” is aired.
1961: Malcolm X becomes spokesman for Elijah Muhammad.
1960 : Second daughter, Qubilah, is born.
1962: Third daughter, Ilyasah, is born.
1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Malcolm X tells reporters the killing was a case of the “chickens coming home to roost” and is silenced by Muhammad. Malcolm later explained he meant that the country’s hate had killed the president. After Malcolm X is isolated, he begins his own mosque in New York.
1964: Daughter Amilah is born. Malcolm makes a pilgrimage to Mecca, the Middle East and Africa, and learns that Africans and Muslims overseas are concerned about the civil rights quest in America. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and modifies his views of white America.
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