The Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library is pleased to present a talk by Shaw neighborhood resident A. Peter Bailey
From a press release distributed by the Watha T. Daniel Neighborhood Library...
When: Monday, February 6, 2012 at
6:30 PM
Where: Watha T. Daniel Shaw
Neighborhood Library
1630 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
For more information:
(202) 727-1288
Professor A. Peter Bailey was a
founding member of the Organization of Afro-American Unity which was founded
by Malcolm X in 1964 after his separation from the Nation of Islam. He
was editor of the OAAU's newsletter and was in the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965 when Brother Malcolm was assassinated. He was a pall-bearer
at his funeral.
Bailey, once a strong supporter of the
mainstream civil rights movement, has said: "My awareness of Brother
Malcolm was strictly as the bogeyman that you read about in the newspapers...All of
that changed in the summer of 1962 when I heard him speak for the first
time."
Bailey knew, worked with, and supported
Brother Malcolm before joining Johnson Publishing's New York office
where he wrote for Ebony and Jet. Mr. Bailey was the 2010 Visiting Playwright
in residence in The Department of Theatre Art at Howard University.
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