Fall Creek Friends Meeting

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"Many of us fool ourselves into thinking of Afro-Americans as those only who are here in the United States. America is North America, Central America, and South America. Anybody of African ancestry in South America is an Afro-American. Anybody in Central America of African blood is an Afro-American. Anybody here in North America, including Canada, is an Afro-American if he has African ancestry—even down in the Caribbean’ he’s an Afro-American.

So when I speak of the Afro-American, I’m not speaking of just the 22 million of us who are here in the United States. But the Afro-American is that large number of people in the Western Hemisphere, from the southernmost tip of South America to the northernmost tip of North America, all of whom have a common heritage and have a common origin when you go back to the roots of these people."

Malcolm X excerpt, Not Just an American Problem, But a World Problem (Feb. 16, 1965)

Image: Cover of "Of Longings" by Reynold S. Francis

Someone left this at the meetinghouse at the time of the Frederick Douglass event. Is it yours?