"Remembering Malcolm" Benjamin Karim, Peter Skutches, David Gallen (1992)
For seven years Benjamin Karim asisted Malcom daily in his Muslim ministry at New York Mosque Number Seven. On a Sunday morning, outside Harlem´s Christian churches, he might go „fishing“ with Malcolm for converts to the Nation of Islam. Every Tuesday he diligently studied the natural sciences, current events, history, and geography in Malcolm´s class for assistant ministers.Saturday mornings were reserved for the children in the mosque, with Brother Malcolm they would visit the Planetarium, a museum, or the zoo. Any day might bring a Muslim couple with marital problems to the minister of Number Seven, or a sister in desperate financial straits, or a brother who had “spooked out” on Jesus (and who responded favorably to Malcolm’s Looney Tunes cartoon cure). The man Karim remembers in this intimate memoir ministered tirelessly to the needs of his people. He counseled, healed, instructed, taught. He constantly battled their common enemy – ignorance; and he spoke far more of obedience, moderation, charity, and pride than he did of violence.
Remembering Malcolm places Malcolm X at the center of a carefully detailed picture of the Muslim community in Harlem in the early sixties. It warmly recalls rituals of courtship, three-days fasts and sundown feasts, the rigors and rewards of military discipline, the sociability of the Unity Nights. It remembers a way of life, and recounts a sad end.
Benjamin Karim is a editor of The End of White World Supremacy, a collection of speeches by Malcolm X. He lives with his wife, Linda, and four sons in Richmond, Virginia.
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Title: Remembering Malcolm:
The Story of Malcolm X from inside the Muslim mosque by his assistant minister Benjamin Karim
Authors: Benjamin Karim, Peter Skutches, David Gallen
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. New York
Year: 1992
Number of pages: 206
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:: Contents ::
1. 1934 - Six Hundred Miles from Lansing
2. 1949 – From Taejon to Tachikawa
3. 1952 – 1956
4. Harlem, April 1957
5. Inside the Tample
6. Islam gave me wings
7. Inside the Tample
8. Remembering Malcolm
9. Los Angeles, April 1962
10. New York, December 1963
11. Remembering Malcolm
12. 1964 – Winter
13. 1975
