- unitid
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{"value"=>"25609", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 752", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b18203005", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1963-1965", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1963/1965"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.21 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Organization of Afro-American Unity", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Black nationalist organization launched by Malcolm X in 1964. The OAAU was a secular institution that sought to unify 22 million non-Muslim African Americans with the people of the African Continent. It was modeled after the Organization of African Unity (OAU), a coalition of 53 African nations working to provide a unified political voice for the continent.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection includes various OAAU and Malcolm X-related documents, such s two statements issued by Malcolm X in Cairo, August 1964; a typed article that Malcolm X reportedly gave to Peter Bailey, editor of the OAAU newsletter <span class=\"title\">Blacklash</span>, at the Hotel Theresa the day before his assassination; and interview transcripts, press releases, and other printed matter. Also included are Bailey's holograph, \"Thoughts Written down Immediately after Bro. Malcolm's Assassination\"; a two-page statement by Ella Collins, President of OAAU, Inc., announcing \"A ten year economic program based upon 360 degrees of knowledge\" and the organization's new motto, \"Black Ism\" (1965); and writings by Carlos Moore and Lebert Bethune of the Afroamerican Committee in Paris about Malcolm X's banning by the French government and his subsequent assassination.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchase from Peter Bailey, December 2004.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by A. Elizee, July 2009.</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"id"=>"aspace_714b1c45061068ccc6c6b0e5497ba2a0", "value"=>"<p>Burnett, Lucy. \"Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) 1965.\" Blackpast.org. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/organization-afro-american-unity-oaau-1965/ (accessed August 25, 2020).</p>"}
- date_start
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1963
- keydate
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1963
- date_end
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1965
- date_inclusive_start
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1963
- date_inclusive_end
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1965
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) collection, Sc MG 752, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Black nationalist organization launched by Malcolm X in 1964. The OAAU was a secular institution that sought to unify 22 million non-Muslim African Americans with the people of the African Continent. It was modeled after the Organization of African Unity (OAU), a coalition of 53 African nations working to provide a unified political voice for the continent. The collection includes various OAAU and Malcolm X-related documents, such s two statements issued by Malcolm X in Cairo, August 1964; a typed article that Malcolm X reportedly gave to Peter Bailey, editor of the OAAU newsletter <span class=\"title\">Blacklash</span>, at the Hotel Theresa the day before his assassination; and interview transcripts, press releases, and other printed matter. Also included are Bailey's holograph, \"Thoughts Written down Immediately after Bro. Malcolm's Assassination\"; a two-page statement by Ella Collins, President of OAAU, Inc., announcing \"A ten year economic program based upon 360 degrees of knowledge\" and the organization's new motto, \"Black Ism\" (1965); and writings by Carlos Moore and Lebert Bethune of the Afroamerican Committee in Paris about Malcolm X's banning by the French government and his subsequent assassination.", "generated"=>true}