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‘ — ’ 1 rs ee Ce ar et ge Oe | at LP: eee i iY Warts wa ee FoR a” t oie A: ay 4 Dat MOE TN IS Hy | FrICES LPECLTING FD POROPRIATE ag ( ; : } UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Detroit, Michigan February 17, 1965 Re: Afro-American Broadcasting and Recording Company Detroit, Michigan that Malcoin p rat Annual Dignity Projection and Scholarship Award ceremceny sponsored by the Afro-American Broadcasting and Recording Company on February 14, 1965, at the Ford Auditorium, 20 East Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. ED «1-01 Little stated, in part, “one o e ings that has to be stressed tonight is that which has not only the United States worried but which also has France and Great Britain also worried, and that primarily is the African revolution. They are more concerned with the revolution that is taking place on the African continent than they are with the revolution in Asia and Latin America and this is because there are 50 many people of African ancestry within the domestic confines of these various governments. When I was in Africa in May I noticed a tendency on the part of the Afro-Americans to gag when everyone else there was doing something constructive. For instance, in Ghana there were MARY. . who were organized as pressure groups to let the people of Ghana never forget what is happening to the brothers in South Africa, Also, you have brothers from Angola and other parts of Africa who would be training their every move to offset what was happening to their people back home, The only difference on the continent was the American Negro, Those who were over there were not even thinking about their brothers back here. This was the basic difference. The Africans, when they escapedfrom their respective countries, did not try te run away from the problem but as soon as they got to where they were going they began to organize into pressure groups to get governmental support at the international level against the injustices they were experiencing back home. The American Negroes who were Gey” 100 — ot f~ san 7792 (