Organization of Afro-American Unity

In 1965 he founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity as a secular vehicle to internationalize the plight of Black Americans and to make common cause with the people of the developing world—to move from civil rights to human rights.

…1964 he helped cofound the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which encouraged African Americans to look to and embrace their African heritage. That year he also received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his book about facing racism in the U.S. Army, And Then We Heard the Thunder. Killens’s affiliation with Black…