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Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) collection
- Title
- Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) collection, 1963-1965.
- Author
- Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 752 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 0.2 lin. Ft. (one box)
- Summary
- Varied OAAU and Malcolm X-related documents, including two statements issued by Malcolm X in Cairo in August 1964; a typed article Malcolm X reportedly gave to Peter Bailey, editor of the OAAU newsletter Blacklash, at the Hotel Theresa the day before his assassination; and interview transcripts, press releases and other printed matter. Also included are Bailey's 7p. holograph "Thoughts written down immediately after Bro. Malcolm's assassination;" a two page statement by Ella Collins, President of OAAU, Inc., announcing "A ten year economic program based upon 360 degrees of knowledge" and the organization's new motto, "Black Ism" (1965); and writings by Carlos Moore and Lebert Bethune of the Afroamerican Committee in Paris about Malcolm X's banning by the French government and his subsequent assassination.
- Subjects
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Peter Bailey
- Biography (note)
- Black nationalist organization launched by Malcolm X in 1964.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 752
- OCLC
- 472223219
- Author
- Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- Title
- Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) collection, 1963-1965.
- Biography
- Black nationalist organization launched by Malcolm X in 1964.
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- Added Author
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.Bailey, A. Peter.Moore, Carlos.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 752