Walk In Dignity

By DR. KHALID ABDULLAH TARIQ AL-MANSOUR

The Walk In Dignity is a Vital Speech given to the California Republicans in 1964 regarding a program for African Americans in pursuit of dignity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prince Ali AlMansour
• Release date: Oct 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781540180162

DR. KHALID ABDULLAH TARIQ AL-MANSOUR

Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour graduated from Howard University where he majored in Philosophy and Logic. He also attended University of California Berkley School of Law where he received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence degree. He is a Phi Beta Kappa recipient and listed as the World's Who's Who in the Arab World, Who's Who in Public Affairs, Royal Blue Book of London, International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Black America. His business and professional interests include co-founding the International Law Firm of AlWaleed, Al-Talal & AlMansour, representing the OPEC interest at the famous Los Angeles trial, IMAWC vs. OPEC and co-founder and director of the African Arabian Islamic Bank.

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VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY

Walk In Dignity

EDUCATION

By Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour, President, Afro-American Association, Oakland, California

Delivered before the House of Delegates, United Republicans of California, Bakersfield, California, May 2, 1964

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T IS A GREAT pleasure for me to be here this morning and to talk to this great assembly on a very timely topic—a topic that you have heard a great deal about and a topic which I am going to treat slightly differently.

The approach of the Afro-American Association is an old approach. It is an approach that has been employed by man­kind throughout the world in any given nation in any given time. It is a summary of the life and the history of America. Nevertheless, it seems new today because in the area of race relations for the last 100 years. it has not been heard. Many of the concepts will be new and possibly even strange; so, I am inviting your very, very critical attention.

The purpose of my address this morning is not to con­vince anyone that the Afro-American Association has the only program that will solve the problem of 20 million peo­ple in America, but I am maintaining that the Afro-Ameri­can Association has an analysis—, definition of the problem that, if recognized, will bring meaningful progress to the race and to