The OAU would serve as inspiration for Malcolm X’s Organization of African American Unity.Brother Malcolm made a visit to His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie’s palace, but the Emperor was out of the country. His Imperial Majesty did write brother Malcolm a letter encouraging him to keep fighting for the rights of African Americans..
Pictured in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are Maya Angelou; Malcolm X (1925–1965); novelist, journalist, playwright, scriptwriter/producer Julian Mayfield (1928–1985); and Sylvia Boone (1941–1993), who became the first African-American woman to get tenure at Yale.
