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Supporters Donate Blood for Betty Shabazz

HeadlineJun 10, 1997

In New York, a blood drive drew an overflow crowd to a narrow basement hallway in Harlem, where donors said they wanted to honor Malcolm X’s critically burned widow by giving something of themselves. At Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, Betty Shabazz remains in critical condition more than a week after she was severely burned in a fire in her home.

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