Quotes
Who said: “The real criminal is the white man who poses as a liberal”?
Malcolm X
Name one state Malcolm lived in that was not the one he was born in.
Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, etc.
Who did King refuse to debate?
Malcolm X
Fill in the blank in Malcolm’s quote cited in Cone: “I know that you don’t realize the enormity, the horrors, of the so-called Christian white man’s crime…Not even in the ______ is there such a crime! God in His wrath struck down with fire the perpetrators of lesser crimes!”
Bible
Joseph said “Skepticism and envy of Malcolm within the organization [of the Nation of Islam] grew, as did rumors that he, and not ______, exerted the most control.”
Elijah Muhammad
Who said: “For if he had known racism in the North as Malcolm knew it, intellectually and existentially, he would not have given that dream speech in Washington, D.C. Others might have given it, even knowing that the Civil Rights Act would have no appreciable effect on the wretched conditions of blacks in the North, but not Martin King. He had too much integrity for that”
What state was Malcolm born in? +100 if you can name the city as well
Omaha, Nebraska
Which decade was the incident that brought Malcolm X into the attention of the larger Black community?
1950s
According to Cone, "Malcolm's often-repeated central claim” was that “‘The white man is the ___’ whose ‘time is up.’”
devil
Joseph said: “Malcolm, meanwhile, responded to the ferment of publicity and energy surrounding his global travels by founding the weekly newspaper ______ in 1960.”
Muhammad Speaks
Who is Cone quoting? “___ mockingly praised segregationists such as Mississippi senator James Eastland ‘because he airs his vicious prejudice all the time,’ in contrast with politicians who pretended to support Black citizens who pretended to support Black citizenship during election time, only to abandon Black folk and ‘democracy itself’ once in office.” (85)
Martin Luther King Jr.
When did Malcolm begin to diverge from Muhammad (looking for a general period like late ‘30s, early ‘10s, mid ‘20s)
Early 1960s
What was the metaphor Malcolm X used to describe white people? He described northern white liberals as this and southern whites as this.
Answer: northern white liberals as foxes and southern whites and wolves
Fill in the blank (it’s one for both): “You shall know the truth and it shall make you free. Beloved brothers and sisters, ___ never said that Abraham Lincoln would make us free. He never said the Congress would make us free…But ___ did prophesy that when Elijah comes in the spirit and power of truth he said that Elijah would teach you the truth.”
Jesus
Name one of three Civil Rights Activists that Cone says Malcolm developed respect towards for having the “courage to debate him in public” (+100 for naming 2, +200 for naming all 3)
Bayard Rustin, James Farmer, Louis Lomax
Who said “What King referred to as ‘black supremacy,’ Malcolm defined as radical political self-determination—an affirming act that acknowledged the humanity long denied African Americans.”
Peniel E. Joseph
What was the name of the teacher that Malcolm credits for this change: “It was then that I began to change—inside. I drew away from white people. I came to class, I answered when called upon. It became a physical strain simply to sit in [teacher’s name]’s class.”
Mr. Ostrowski
What event brought Malcolm into the attention of the larger Black community? (The [insert name] incident)
The Hinton Johnson Incident
Fill in the blank (same for both): “The white man is worried today the same way that ____ was worried when you read the first chapter of Exodus in the Bible. The slaves under ___ had begun to multiply…”
Pharaoh
Who researched the documentary “The Hate that Hate Produced?”
Louis Lomax
Who is Joseph talking about here? “___ concluded in his essay by accusing King of hypocritically supporting American violence during the Second World War as a moral good to defeat fascism but preventing defenseless [Black people] from doing the same at home.”
Robert F. Williams
Malcolm X was paroled from this prison in 1952.
Charlestown State Prison
Malcolm was the second most sought after speaker in colleges and universities for a period. Who was the first?
Barry Goldwater
Fill in the blank: “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the symbolic stories in all religious scriptures paint a prophetic picture of today. He says _____ was only a prophetic picture of America. Mighty _____ was only a prophetic picture of America. The wicked cities of _______ painted only a prophetic picture of America.” All 3 blanks are different. Name 1 for 400, 2 for 500, and all 3 for 600
Egyptian House of Bondage, Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah
Which newspaper published “Merchants of Hate?”
The Saturday Evening Post