Malcom X. Meeting Castro and other world leaders Part 6

In September 1960, Fidel Castro arrived in New York to attend the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. He and his entourage stayed at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.

Malcolm X was a prominent member of a Harlem-based welcoming committee made up of community leaders who met with Castro.

Castro was so impressed by Malcolm X that he requested a private meeting with him.

During the General Assembly meeting, Malcolm X was also invited to many official embassy functions sponsored by African nations, where he met heads of state and other leaders, including Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea, and Kenneth Kaunda of the Zambian African National Congress.