in new york had planned a major event. >> the president's body met by important servicemen. >> elijah mohammed scheduled to speak. after kennedy's assassination, elijah was like, no, i'm not doing any public speaking. i'm cancelling that event, and the ministers in the nation of islam were instructed to not comment on kennedy's assassination. malcolm gave the speech. he did not comment on the assassination. >> you see, he was very clear that elijah mohammed always wanted to steer clear of any confrontation. >> when malcolm opened up to question and answer, the reporter asked him what his thoughts were on kennedy's assassination and malcolm, you know, he gave this really thoughtful response about violence. he said, when you have a climate of hate, you're going to get back hate. so if we're putting out so much hate and we're teaching our children and our nation to hate, then you're going to get all of that back. he said, this is a case of chickens coming home to roost. >> speaking for himself and not muslims in general. and malcolm has been suspended from public speaking for the time being. >> s

we are taught by the honorable elijah mohammed to obey the law, to respect everyone who respects us. we're taught to display courtesy, to be polite. but we're also taught that at any time anyone in any way inflicts or seeks to inflict violence upon us, we are within our religious rights to retaliate in self-defense to the maximum degree of our ability. we never initiate any violence upon anyone but if anyone attacks us, we reserve the right to defend ourselves, so to accuse us of being violent is like accusing a man who is being lynched, who is being hung on a tree, simply because he struggles vigorously against his lyncher, the victim is accused of violence, but the lyncher is never accused of violence and i only point this out because the various racist groups that are set up in this country by whites and who have actually practiced violence against blacks for 400 years are never associated or identified or made synonomous with the term violence, but whites speak of muslims almost synonomously with violence. whenever muslims is mentioned by them, violence is brought up but it's not

he felt betrayed after learning that the leader elijah mohammed had committed adult reand fathered multiplehildren out of wedlock. he converted to sunni islam and made the pilgrimage to mecca and founded his own religious group the organizations of afro american unity and became more open to a har moneyous solution to america's race problem. his efforts were cut short on february 21st, 1965, he was gunned down while delivering a speech in harlem's ottoman ballroom. .3 members of the nation of islam were convicted of the assassination of malcolm x. >> jesse jackson is one of the few prominent civil rights leaders who is still active in urban communities today. david shuster talked to him about malcolm x's inflew he knew before and after his death. >> he has lived beyond his death. malcolm was a man who was de defiant, rejected with negotiable dignity, capacity to organize people. he brought mohammed ali into the nation of islam, for example. he really brought mr. farrakahn in to the nation of islam. the capacity to organize made him very different. >> has history been unfair to him? because

after he felt the leader elijah mohamed had committed adultery and fathered children with women not hise. harmonious solution to america's race problem. his efforts were cut short in february 25th, 1965 he was gunned down. three members of the nation of islam were convicted for assassination ever malcolm x. meaive, almichael eaves. al jazeera. >> we don't advocate violence but our people have been the constant victims of brutality on the part of america's racists and the government has found itself either unwilling or unable to do anything about it. >> reporter: malcolm x didn't sugar coat his message. >> i think the black movement will create a black backlash. >> preached racial tolerance and cooperation, malcolm's message was aggressive. >> out of necessity we have reached the point where our people must form defense units where we can provide. >> all black nation of islam. the split came the same year malcolm traveled abroad meeting foreign leaders and muslims who were not white. he moderated his views but still stressed black independence. >> we should do something to up lift our ow

. >> we will follow the honorable elijah mohammed, absolutely reject integration because we feel that and that it takes too long. >> reporter: the idea that somebody like malcolm x could come across the criticism in a student paper and say i want to go there, would that happen today? >> no, i mean, usually if it was a battle it would happen on twitter if anything. >> to ms. pierce and to "the brown daily herald"... >> reporter: did he change your mind? >> oh, no, no, no. in fact, malcolm x would change his, moving closer to pierce's belief in integration before he died four years after he traveled to brown. >> it was almost giddy being in the midst of something potentially interesting historically. >> reporter: time has not eroded malcolm x's place in history, nor in her story either. jim axelrod, cbs news, providence, rhode island. >> >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> e! re-airs giuliana rancic's offensive comments about zendaya on "fashion police." >> will co-host kelly osborne really quit the sh

they would call brother malcolm's people and say, you better watch out for allies you mohammed's people -- elijahpeople is it a watch out for malcolm his people and vice versa. that is how i've come to realize and see it after all these years. >> ilyasah shabazz, one of the big revelations in the movie "selma" that's a price of many people, your father goes to somewhat to meet with corrina scott king while dr. king was injured. >> that's correct. but the back and was were very close. -- both of our families were very close. both were seeking solutions to this human condition that would oppress its fellow man. it is just an unfortunate situation -- >> ilyasah shabazz you are too young, but you ever written extensively about your dad. you have written -- you cowrote with or co-edited the diary of malcolm x. last year. your father went to africa, went to mecca. talk about the significance of that period and then how interesting that your families knew each other, dr. king's family and yours yet a lot has been made of the rift between your father and dr. king. that you're saying there something else