Malcolm X Page #4

ANGLE. FRONT PORCH OF THE LITTLE HOUSE - AN EMPTY ROCKER ON

IT.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

My father was not a frightened Negro

as most were then and as many still

are today. He was six feet four and

very black...

CLOSE - EARL LITTLE

He looks directly into the camera, wearing a Baptist

Minister's robe.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

...and had a glass eye. He believed,

as did Marcus Garvey, that freedom,

independence and self-respect could

never be achieved by the Negro in

America...

CLOSE - EARL LITTLE

He wears a Garvey hat, ornate with gold braid.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

...that, therefore, black men should

leave America and return to the land

of their origin.

ANGLE. Earl Little, in a wagon with little Malcolm.

CLOSE - EARL LITTLE:

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

My father dedicated his life to his

beliefs because he had seen four of

his six brothers die violently...

WIDER ANGLE. WE SEE Earl in front of a podium in church. He

is preaching.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

...three killed by white men and one

lynched.

There are nine children in our family.

ANGLE. The nine Little children.

CLOSE - LOUISE LITTLE

She is a pretty, mature woman and white-looking.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

My mother was an attractive woman,

an educated woman, a strong woman.

CLOSE - LOUISE AND EARL

A posed wedding picture, serious but sweet.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

She was very light, her mama was

raped by a white man. One of the

reasons she married my father was

because he was so black, she disliked

her complexion and wanted her children

to have some color.

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