revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

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to go to the University of Al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt, and other places in
the world for guerrilla training . RAM published its periodical Black
America . Malcolm in his speeches in Africa would say, "This is my publicati
on . "39 Malcolm returned from Africa and began to have mass meeting in January,
1965 . In January, 1965, Malcolm began to lay out a perspective for the
black revolution . But before he could lay out and develop his perspective,
the CIA, FBI, New York police noose began to tighten around him .
Malcolm had achieved part one of his objectives, the internationalizing
of our struggle .
Branches of the OAAU had been established in England,
France, and Ghana, now was time to expand the OAAU nationally .
Right be
fore his death, Malcolm had entered into phase two of his program of direct
action . He went to Mississippi and Selma, Alabama to speak and was preparing
to begin to lead the civil rights movement to the proposed transition
to human rights.
Malcolm's military wing was to have eventually moved into the south to
provide security for demonstrations and develop community self-defense
groups .
Early in February, Kaliel Said, a member of RAM who had been sent into
Malcolm's organization to develop a security wing, was
arrested on the
Statute of Liberty bomb plot . Inside the Muslim Mosque, Inc ., and OAAU,
Kaliel's arrest upset Malcolm's internal security . It also set the public
climate the intelligence forces wanted for conspiracy . At this point, the
U .S . government plot went into action . Malcolm was expelled from France,
18 1nterview with Malcolm X, January, 1965, 22 West Restaurant, New York,
New York .
39 1bid .