How far did Malcolm X get with taking the United States to the United Nations?
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It appears he went as far as trying to convince African leaders of officially raising the issue.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 —The State Department and the Justice Department have begun to take an interest in Malcolm X's campaign to convince African states to raise the question of persecution of American Negroes at the United Nations.
The Black Nationalist leader started his campaign July 17 in Cairo, where the 33 heads of independent African states held their second meeting since the Organization of African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa 14 months ago.
The article continues:
Malcolm's eight‐page memorandum to the heads of state at the Cairo conference requesting their support became available here only recently. After studying it, officials said that if Malcolm succeeded in convincing just one African Government to bring up the charge at the United Nations, the United States Government would be faced with a touchy problem.
It appears he had little success
“Some African leaders at this conference,” he said in his memorandum, “have implied that they have enough problems here on the mother continent without adding the Afro‐American problem.
This occurred in seven months before his assassination. I was not able find anything stating he had either given up on the idea, or was merely waiting for a better time to re-raise the issue.
(All quotes from a New York Times article from August 13, 1964 titled "MALCOLM X SEEKS U.N. NEGRO DEBATE; He Asks African States to Cite U.S. Over Rights")
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