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Similarly, just let some mayor or some city council somewhere boast of having "no Negro problem. ". I'd say they didn't need to tell me where this was, because I knew that all it meant was that relatively very few Negroes were living there. That's true the world over, you know. Take "democratic" England-when 100,000 black West Indians got there, England stopped the black migration. -Malcolm X, Autobiography
On August 28, 1951, the once-a-decade World Methodist Conference convened at the University of Oxford's historic Sheldonian Theatre, in the heart of the city.40 King George VI and the archbishop of Canterbury welcomed 450 delegates from around the world. The American delegation included Bishops William J. Walls, Sherman L. Greene, and Bertram Doyle, representing the three largest African American Methodist denominations. Following Nazi racism during World War II, Indian Independence in 1947, and the United Nation's adoption of the Universal Charter of Human Rights in 1948, the time seemed apt for a forthright challenge to both empire and racial discrimination. Where better than at a global ecumenical Methodist gathering-a denomination founded by an abolitionist, with a long history of African American and black African membership-at Oxford University, with its reputation for enlightened thinking?