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| | Pride and prejudice / A young author looks back at the tragedy -- and triumph -- of Betty Shabazz's life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | As Maya Angelou tells it, Betty Shabazz, better known to most people as Malcolm X's widow, was at a Washington, D.C., function in the early 1990s when a woman approached her and said, "You know, you have to let go of Malcolm. |
 | | Plus, beauteous Betty was tall -- Elijah Muhammad had always counseled Muslim men to seek mates of similar height -- and she had smooth, dark brown skin, which "complemented his ferocious preaching on the deficiency of white blood," according to Rickford. |
 | | Betty Shabazz's story, in the end, is "rich with triumph and her amazing fortitude," Rickford said. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/22/LVG9S50BBJ50.DTL (2016 words) |
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