[Courtesy of the Saleem Muhammad Collection] Brother Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz), Elder Shaykh Ahmad Hassun (Sudanese religious leader), and Bro. Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu (Tanzanian politician who, as left-wing champion of the anticolonial Pan-African movement of the mid-20th century, laid the ideological groundwork for the Zanzibar revolution of January 1964, which led, three months later, to Tanganyika’s uniting with Zanzibar to form Tanzania). The photo was taken at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York City during a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in which Malcolm X served as chairman; December 13, 1964. Malcolm X would be assassinated two months later on that very stage
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