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oo pss APPENDIX DPGANIZATION CD AFROQ-AMZERICAN UNITY (OAAU) On June 28, 1964, MALCOLM X LITTLE, founder and leader of the luslin Mcszue, Incorporated (MUI), publicly announced tia formation of a new, all Negro, militant civil - rights action group to be known as the Organization of Afroe Anerican Dnity (OAAU), with himself as Chairman, This announcernent was made at a public raily held by the MMI in the Audubon Ballroom, Broadway and 166th Street, New York City, A printed and published statement of basic OAAU cics read oy MALCOLM X at this meeting indicates that it shall include "all" people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere, as well as “our™ brothers and sisters on the African continent, It is patterned after the "letter and spirit" of the Organization of African Unity established (by African heads of States) at Addis Ababa, Bihiopia, in May, 1963, A recording of the rerarks of MALCOLM ZX at this meeting indicates that the aim of the OAAU is to elininate differences between Negroes so they can work together for Toman rights," while the initial objective is to ty-cesnetionalize" the American civil rights movement by taking it to the United Nations, LITTLE condemned the non- violent civil rights moverent and clains that Negroes should be taught to protect themselves, woen and if necsscary, “ae OAAU will sponsor a program for Negroes of education, politics, culture, economics and social reforn, On August 19, 1964, a confidential sourc? advised that the headquarters of the OAAU are iccaved in Mun Lead cuarters, Suite 128, Hotel Theresa, 2090 7th Avenus, New York City.