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Conscious Lee@TheConsciousLee · Sep 5, 2026

A MF THREAD on what Malcolm X was actually doing in the twelve months before he was killed, because it was not what…

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Malcolm X spent his final year building an international coalition to bring U.S. racial oppression before the United Nations as a human rights violation, founding the Organization of Afro-American Unity and meeting with African leaders to file a formal case. He was assassinated before this strategy could succeed, leaving a legacy that contemporary activists are now reviving decades later.

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    A MF THREAD on what Malcolm X was actually doing in the twelve months before he was killed, because it was not what they teach you.

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    April 3, 1964, Cleveland. The Ballot or the Bullet. The line everybody skips: civil rights keeps you in Uncle Sam’s jurisdiction. Human rights lets you take him to the UN.

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    June 28, 1964: Malcolm founds the Organization of Afro American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom, explicitly modeled on the Organization of African Unity.

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    The OAU passes a resolution expressing concern about racial oppression in the United States. It is mild. It is also the first time a body of independent African states had put U.S. racism on its own agenda.

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    The State Department noticed. Internal cables from that summer show real anxiety that Malcolm might succeed in getting the U.S. formally censured.

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    He kept traveling: Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Guinea, Algeria, back to Cairo. He met Nkrumah, Nyerere, Kenyatta, Ben Bella. He was building the coalition to file the case.

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    He was assassinated February 21, 1965, at the Audubon, the same room where he founded the OAAU. The case was never filed.

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    When I went to Geneva 2 weeks ago with two Black reproductive justice workers filing a shadow report against the United States, I was not starting something. I was picking up a memorandum a man left on a table in Cairo sixty one years ago.