| ... | We, of the Board of Trustees of the Malcolm X Museum, have come together in the spirit of Brother Malcolm to establish a living museum that would reflect the legacy of El Hajj Malik Shabazzís roots in the struggle for Black Liberation.
We recognize that the Malcolm X Museum grows out of a long community
struggle to save the Audubon Ballroom and to transform it into a site
dedicated to the powerful legacy of Brother Malcolm X. Some of us were
directly involved in that struggle and acknowledge that although we did not
achieve our ideal goal, we did establish the idea of the need for a space
that is permanently allocated to archiving and memorializing the life and
times of Brother Malcolm.
It is in this sense that our goals are:
- To help provide a repository for the collection, archival and display of
Malcolm X artifacts, memorabilia and published materials from all over the
world.
- To help inform and educate our immediate and global communities that are
dedicated to developing strategies and solutions for human rights and
fundamental social change based on the writings, speeches and teachings of
El Hajj Malik Shabazz.
- To help in establishing the Malcolm X museum as an official center for the
cogent study and discussion of Brother Malcolm X, highlighting his power as
a human being, neighbor, friend, community leader, husband, father, and
freedom fighter.
- To help empower a future of social activists and Human Rights advocates with
the organizational tools brother Malcolm X developed through his years of
research, struggle and study.
- To utilize the Malcolm X Museum space for cultural and social activities
that will aid our Black and Latino communities and the global diaspora of
peoples of color in their efforts to inform and raise poltical and cultural
consciousness among our peopleñ just like Brother Malcolm was doing before
his assassination.
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