Malcolm X comments on civil rights bill, 1964

On March 25, 1964 the Senate voted 67-17 to formally take up the civil rights bill. The following day, African-American Muslim minister and Black nationalist Malcolm X observed their debates from the visitor's gallery. In the first of two news conferences afterward, he remarks that the proceedings seemed to him to be "just some more political chicanery." He corrects one reporter, "It’s not 'the Negro cause' when you try to bring about independence for all people in this country. Any thinking person is working for the so-called American cause. You’re not working for my cause when you try and practice what you preach."
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