Odds & Ends
This is the reason Coffin Ed has scars on his face.
What is acid?
This is the year of the Harlem Race Riot.
What is 1964?
"VA VA VOOOOOOOOOM!"
He retired to Africa with $87,000.
Who is Uncle Bud?
"This is how much money that was raised for the “Back to Africa movement”
"What is $87,000?"
These two passphrases were used by the Mormons in Doyle's 'Study in Scarlet'.
What is "Nine to Seven" and "Seven to Five"?
He was the US President who enacted the “War on Crime” in 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
“Every month hundreds of claims come to this desk. I know which ones are phony because my little man tells me."
Who is Barton Keyes from Double Indemnity?
He went to prison for two reasons- For a murder he didn’t commit and a fraud he tried to commit.
Who is Deke O’Hara?
She is the woman who Deke O’Malley stayed with, and who was killed by Iris.
Who is Mabel Hill?
This Animal was the perpetrator in Poe's first detective story.
What is an Orangutan?
He founded the Black Arts Movement.
Who is Amiri Baraka?
“If you were asked to prove two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.”
Who is Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet?
He went on the lamb with his nephew, probably to flee back to Alabama.
Who is Colonel Calhoun?
These two are two con-men that Grave Digger and Coffin Ed question about the hijacking van.
Who are Early riser and Lo Boy?
This was the vehicle that Colonel Calhoun used for his heist at the beginning of "Cotton Comes to Harlem".
What is a meat delivery truck?
He was the one who first coined the term “Blaxploitation”.
Who is Junius Griffin?
“No, Dix. I've never hated you. I don't hate you, even now."
Who is Silvia Nicolai from In a Lonely Place?
They didn’t get a raise, but they at least got a commemorative map of Africa.
Who are Grave Digger and Coffin Ed?
This was the name that Iris goes under to escape.
Lotus Green
She is the only representative of the LGBT community in "Cotton Comes to Harlem".
Who is Billie?
This is the definition of the acronym CORE.
Congress of Racial Equality
“If we don’t make it, remember me”
Who is Christina from Kiss Me Deadly?
He’s out a worker, a dog, AND a bale of cotton. Thankfully, Reba is there to comfort him.
Who is Mr. Goodman?
The armored truck, Uncle bud, Goodman, Josh, Billie, Colonel Calhoul.
What was the Journey of the bale of cotton?