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SOU eo ee hes Owes er one NY 105-8999 "In order to keep the Organization of Afro- American Unity (OAAU) from gaining the interest, sympathy ee ee ee ee ae ee ee ee Punt and support of the Independent African States in our effort to bring the miserable plight of the 22 million Afro-Americans before the UN, the racist element in the State Department very shrewdly gave maximin world-wide publicity to the recent passage of the Civil Rights Bill... which was actually only a desperate attempt to make the African States think she was sincerely trying to correct the continued injustices done to us, and thereby manauwer the African governments into permitting America to keep - manatee fAamecttal aed 26414 ut & her racism 'domestic' and still within her sole jurisdiction. “This racist element within the State Department realizes that if any intelligent, truely militant Afror American is ever permitted to come before the United Nations to testify in behalf of the 22 million mistreated Afro- Americans, our dark-skinned brothers and sisters in Africa, Asia and Latin America would then see America as a ‘Brute Beast, ' even more cruel and vulturous than the colonial powers of Europe and South Africa combined. I was relieved and delighted to learn how easily most of the African Heads of State and their advisors could see through the tricks of the American racists. One of them told me he imew the Civil Rights Bill was only a ‘political maneuwr! tompture the Negro votes in the coming elections, and he stressed that 1t could hardly have been accidental that passage of the bill came to fruition during this crucial election year." 52- ne AT SET eR et te PA Ta pe Ps TF