The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union

I hope that the Afroamerican Community in Paris, as well as in the whole of Europe, will realize the importance of us sticking together in unity and brotherhood and doing something to solve our own problems. -Malcolm X to supporters in Paris, by telephone, February 9, 1965

The rest of Malcolm X's trip to England that December was organized by the Federation of Islamic Students Societies, an independent group founded in 1961. When he heard that Malcolm X was coming to Oxford, Ebrahimsa Mohamed, the federation's secretary and a student at Manchester, contacted the head of the Islamic Center in Geneva, who knew Malcolm X from his earlier visit there. Ebrahimsa arranged talks to student Muslim groups in Manchester and Sheffield on Friday, the day after the debate, and to an Islamic society in London on Saturday.1 On his trip, Malcolm X stayed at the homes of British Muslims and joined prayers at local mosques.