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ke, NY 105-8999 “y had traveled over 6000 miles from America to attend this African Summit Conference as an observer. The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), which is patterned - after the letter and spirit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), had sent me to present the true plight and the feelings of 22 million Afro-Americans to these Heads of Independent African States. "Jpon my arrival in Cairo I was met with open arms by the African Leaders and their various delegations. I found cee no doors closed to me. They asked me to prepare @ memorandum vet on the real status of our people, in America, explaining how ae we are also victimized by neo-imperialism in its racist American form, and they urged me to present my memorandum to the Conference so they could take action on it in our behalf, "I tried to summarize our plight in as few words as possible, but my memorandum of continued atrocities against the Afro-American by racists in the United States still stretched into nine pages. It charged America with practicing . a worse form of organized racism than South Africa, and described how this racist element in the State Department had skilfully alientated us from the natural sympathy and oo support of our African Brothers in our freedom-struggle by baal using white 'liberals' to gain our friendship and confidence ss in order to ‘advise' and. maneuver us into a l2-year fight eulemee for cer civil rights, kmowing that as long as our freedom 4 struggie was labeled civil rights it would be considered by the African nations as American ‘domestic!’ affairs and our plight would remain within the sole jurisdiction of the American federal government for a ‘solution’. "My memorandum charged that this same racist element Ba in the State Department kmew that our newly formed Organization Pes of Afro-American Unity {OAAU) was planning to internationalize ey America's race problem by lifting it from the level of civil RS rights to a struggle for the universally recognized cee RIGHTS, and on these grounds we could then bring America before the United Nations and charge her with violating the UN Declaration of Human Rights and thereby of also violating ha PTE Mh awtban # hast CLS WE WE Vee LY Ad es -51~