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Executive Secretary . . . . . . . . . Grace Boggs
Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milton Henry/Paul Brooks 29
RAM's activities during this period helped radicalize both Malcolm and SNCC .
RAM organizers in New York would consult with Malcolm daily and whereever
Malcolm went in the country, his strongest supporters and also his harshest
critics were members of RAM .
Malcolm's awareness of developments in
the movements moved him in a
more activist direction .
Once he had made the break, Malcolm passed successively from a
Pan-Africanism that emerged into a Third World political perspective
. And at the time of his death, he was on the verge of
becoming a revolutionary socialist . 31
Malcolm agreed to become the spokesman but felt his
role should remain
secret because the United States intelligence aparatus would become alarmed
about his connection with Robert Williams, who was in exile in Cuba .
Malcolm was preparing to develop a
public mass organization which he
intended would be instrumental in leading the broad mass movement and would
serve as a united front .
He asked that RAM organizers help in forming that
organizatton and also infiltrate it to develop a security section .
He knew
the Muslim Mosque, Inc . was infiltrated by police agents and did not know
who he could trust . Malcolm had just returned from his first trip to
Africa .
He was in the process of attempting to get African nations to endorse
his proposal to take the U .S . to the United Nations for its violations
of the Human Rights charter in its crimes against Afro-Americans .
29Twelve Point Program of the Revolutionary Action Movement . 1964 .
30 "Malik Shabbaz--The Man History Has Forgotton," African Mirror ,
February, Vol . 2, No . 3, (March 1979), p . 11 .
31 Ibid .