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Article: Malcolm X Daughter `Lured': Attorney Says Qubilah Shabazz Enticed By
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- January 18, 1995
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Staci Bush
Sacramento Observer
01-18-1995
Malcolm X Daughter 'Lured': Attorney Says Qubilah Shabazz Enticed By. Friend Into Death Plot
NEW YORK -- History reveals that just before 3:30 p.m. on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X leaned over a podium at the packed Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, and wished his followers peace.
"A salaam alaikem (peace be with you)," he said.
"Wa alaikem salaam (And unto you peace)," a chorus of voices replied.
Some 400 people had turned out that quiet Sunday afternoon to hear Malcolm X speak. They sat on folding chairs on the woodfloored dance parlor upstairs at the Audubon.
It was exactly one week after Malcolm X's home had been firebombed.
Prominent in the crowd were ...