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Malcolm X — Part 21
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1964, from Dar-es-Salaam. MALCOLM X attended
Kenyatta Day Celebration and appeared prominently
at social functions although he was not a guest
of "GOK" (Government of Kenya).
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MALCOLM appeared on VOK-TV, October 21,
1964, in a special interview during which he atated
that “American voters had little choice between
President JOHNSON and (Senator) GOLDWATER, as the
former was a Southern segregationist and the
latter was an anti-integration right winger, (“one
was a wolf, the other a fox"}. He called the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 nothing but a calculated
propaganda move by the United States to impress
the people of Africa and Asia. MALCOLM stated
that nothing had changed for the Negro since |
passage of the law, that in fact Negroes were being
persecuted more vigorously than before. He also |
pointed out that wWfrican independence movements !
had given great impatus to the American Negroes oan on
struggle for freedom. Coch ott
He said he and his followers intended ja he /
to take up the plight of the American Negro with
the United Bations, posing queations of human
rights not civil rights as discrimination in
the United States had become a world problem
because it was obvious that America was incapable
of coping with it. During his stay in Nairobi,
MALCOLM stated he came to Kenya at the invitation
of "certain government members" and according to
MALCOLM X he had previously visited Nairobi on
his way to Dar-es-Salaam and had been here “fo
or five days" secretly in order to contact
government leaders without publicity. According
to MALCOLM X, he had presented a plan to African.
leaders to condemn the United States in the \
United Nations for racian, African leaders hé \
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