While touring Africa soon before his assassination in 1965 Malcolm X was urging leaders throughout Africa to help black people in the US by reframing the struggle in the US as one being about Human Rights.
By doing this it would give black people in the US the access to take the issue to the United Nations.
Calling the struggle 'civil rights' limited their organizing avenue to the US Congress that was then heavily controlled by the southern racists.
Many believe this was one more key reason for the FBI to have killed Malcolm. He was turning the racism issue in the US into an international issue that people, particularly in Africa, could become more directly involved.
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