ABSTRACT
In 1925, Malcolm Little was born to a dysfunctional, abusive family in Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm began to attract increasing attention and support from lower-class ghetto blacks, less from his exegesis of Black Muslim tenets than for his blistering condemnations of white racism and critiques of the civil rights movements stress on nonviolence and integration. White newspapers called Malcolm the angriest Negro in America, and he wouldn't deny that charge: Malcolm took pains to acknowledge that he had discovered there were, after all, sincere, well-meaning, good white people. In June, 1964, Malcolm announced the formation of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), a secular institution that borrowed from the Organization of African Unity. The new organization declared itself Dedicated to the unification of all people of African descent in this hemisphere and to the utilization of that unity to bring into being the organizational structure that will project the black people's contribution to the world.
