EVENT INFORMATION

13
December
1964

Malcolm addresses an OAAU meeting on the Congo

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Biography 📅 13 December 1964 📍 United States

At an OAAU public meeting in Harlem, Malcolm spoke about the crisis in the Congo before an audience reported at about five hundred people. He connected foreign intervention and the struggle over African sovereignty with the need for Black Americans to claim a voice in international affairs. The meeting made his human-rights strategy concrete through public education and organization.

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Malcolm X

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Organization of Afro-American Unity

Congolese independence movement