Portions of NBC News interview with Malcolm X at Lewis H. Michaux’s famous National Memorial African Bookstore, 2107 Seventh Ave., near 125th Street, Harlem, NY, March 12, 1964. The interview distills Malcolm X’s views during an important, but little understood transitional period of his development. According to the NBC shot list, or description (available on www.footage.net), the “Material [was] found in WMAQ [Chicago NBC-TV affiliate] Carton 160 Can 2 in Oct 1993. Pr[in]t made from NY camera orig[inal] which subsequently was lost. Sound appears slightly speeded up.” If the film sat unused since 1964, this perhaps accounts for the slight distortion of the picture and sound. MUSLIM MOSQUE, INC. Earlier that morning, Malcolm X addressed a packed news conference in the Tapestry Suite of the Park Sheraton (now Park Central) Hotel, 870 Seventh Ave. at 56th Street, at midtown Manhattan, to announce the formation of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. (MMI). Four days earlier, he announced his break from Elijah Muhammad’s “black”-centered, separatist Nation of Islam (NOI), for which he had been the New York minister and national representative. Despite the MMI’s religious name, it was open to black people of any or no religion and dedicated to political, economic and social black nationalism, or black self-determination. This initially included mass emigration “back to Africa,” but was later emended to the pan-Africanist position of select emigration of skilled black people from the West …
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