Malcolm X spoke, educated and organized to create a new, non-religious movement to promote black unity and work for freedom “by any means necessary” during the early part of the Year. On June 28, a new movement was formed with the name of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). On July, 1964, the OAU conference was held in Cairo, Egypt from the 17th through the 21st, and Malcolm was accepted as an observer. He would be permitted to address the conference. The OAU, the Organization of African Unity, was formed in 1963, and consisted of thirty-four member states. In his address, Malcolm X appealed to these African nations on behalf of the over twenty million African-Americans in the United States. He puts forth the oppressive conditions
