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0-19 (Rev. 5-27-63) a Malcolm X in’ Cairo Urges {On July 17, Malcotm X, mili- tant U.S, black nationalist leader, addressed the conference of the Organization of African Unity, under whose auspices 33 heads of ' gndependent African siates met in Cairo, United Arab Republic. He urged the African nations to take the plight of black Americans to “the UN, The following are ex- herpts from his speech to the con- ference.] . We, in America, are your long lost brothers and sisters, and T am here only to remind you that our problems are your problems. As the African-Americans “awaken” today, we find ourselves in a strange land that has rejected us, and, like the prodigal son, we are turning ta our elder brothers for help. We pray our pleas will no’ upon deaf ears. oo We” wee taken forcibly in chains from this mother continent and have now spent over’ 300 ¥i in America, suffering the mst inhuman forms of physical and psychological tortures imagin~ e. : During the past ten years’ the entire world hes witnessed our men, women and children being attacked and bitten by vicious po- Uce dogs, brutally beaten by po- lice clubs, and washed down the. sewers by high-pressure water — hoses that would rip the cicthes from our bodies and the flesh from our limbs. And, all of these inhuman atroc- ities have been inflicted upon us by the American governmental authorities, the police, themselves, for no reason than that we seek the recognition and respect grant- ed other human beings in Amer- “No jhatter how much independ- ence! Africans get here on the moter continent, unless you wear national dress at ali times 64 SIL 1 1964 African Aid to U problem fs your problem. 4 5. Negroe when you visit America, you! may be mistaken for one of us and suffer the same psychological and physical mutilation that is an ev- eryday occurrence in our lives. Your problems will never be fully solved until and unless ours are solved. You will never be fully respected. until and unless we are also respected. You will never be recognized as free hu- man beings until and unless we are also recognized and treated as human beings. | If South Africa is guilty of violating the human rights of Af- ricans here on the mother conti- nent, then America is guilty of worse violations of the 22 mil- lion Africans on the American mtinent. And, if South African racism is not a domestic ie, ihen American racism also is rot | domestic issue. i + Many of you have been led believe that the much publi recently passed Civil Rights Rill is a sign that America is making a sincere effort to correct the in- justices we have suffered there. This propaganda manuever is part of her deceit and trickery to Ke the African Nations from con- demning her racist practices be- fore the United Nations, as are now doing as regards the same | + practices of South Africa’ + “ype pic ye Tolson Belmont Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad High Court Déctsioa ” The United States Supreme —— Court-pessed a law ten years-uze—” making. America's segregated school system illegal. But the Fed- eral Government has yet to en- force this law even in the North. if the Federal Government can- not enforce the law of the high- est court in the land, when it comes to nothing but equal rights to education for Afro-Americans, how can anyone be so nalve as to think all the additional laws brought into being by the Civil Rights Bill will be enforced? ., . Mut of frustration and hopeless- ness our young people? have reached the point of no return. We no longer endorse patieice and turning-the-other-cheek, (We as~ sert the right of self-defense by whatever meang necessary, and reserve the right of maximum re- tallation against our racist op- pressors, no matter what the odds against us are... ' Tp the interests of world peace and security, we beseech the heads of the Independent African states to recommend an immediate in- vestigation Inte our problem by the United Nations Commission on _ Human Rights... “No one knows the master bet- _ fer than his servant.” We have been servants in Americs for over 300 years. We have a thorough, in- side knowledge of this man who calls himself “Uncle Sam.” Thkre- fore, you must heed our warring: Don't escape from European col- ‘more enslaved by | “trtendly™ American dollari . The Washington Daily News The Eventing Star New York Herald Tribune ew York Mirror New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times @ Worker e New Leader The Wall Street Journal People's Worid page 1 & _ NOT °oCORDEB I91 sep 41 1964 deceitful, ———_ New York Journal-American MELT The National Observer _—__._ ‘The Militant” Vas ~ 3973 a/A