Josh Clark

And he just told it to the press.

And that was a really big deal.

And I think at that point, he realized like he had just taken his life into his own hands.

Yeah.

He told Martin Luther King, like, I'm all in.

He founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

He was trying to essentially teach Black Americans about their African heritage.

But at the same time, he had also zoomed in on this idea that

He needed to take the struggle for American civil rights to the world like the U.N.

or the African Congress and basically say, hey, this is the same thing.

This is part of the black struggle worldwide.

Like this is part of this global problem.

It's not separate.

It's not its own thing.

So we need to figure like all these other countries need to get involved, too, and start pressuring the U.S.

to do something about it.

which is a pretty clever idea, actually.

And it was not something that Martin Luther King was doing at the time, from what I understand.

Yeah.

So this was, you said that was May of 1964.