While in prison, Malcolm is converted to this religious organization.
What is the Nation of Islam?
Malcolm X leads a protest to ensure Brother Johnson receives medical care after this happens to Brother Johnson.
What is getting physically assaulted by police?
In the chapter of the graphic novel we read this week, members of the Black Panther Party have an argument with this group of people.
Who are the Oakland Police?
In order to open up land for more slave plantations to grow cotton, the U.S. government forcibly relocated these groups of people.
Who are Native Americans?
Malcolm X's primary mentor after he joined the N.O.I. was this man.
Who is Elijah Muhammad?
Finish the quote from the movie, "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on _____."
What is "landed on US?"
Members of the Black Panther Party keep referring to the police as this farm animal.
What are pigs?
The second Middle Passage lasted roughly 70 years, from 1790 right up to this American war.
What is the Civil War?
Malcolm begins questioning the leadership of his mentor after he discovers this about him.
What is learning that Muhammad had secretly fathered several children with various young female secretaries?
When a white college student asked Malcolm X what she could do to help the movement, this was his blunt reply.
What is "Nothing?"
Huey P. Newton argues that he has the right to carry guns because of this amendment to the Constitution.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This was America's largest export during the 1800s.
What is cotton?
This founder of the Black Panther Party makes a cameo in the film as one of the people giving a speech in the street.
Who is Bobby Seale?
During one of his speeches, Malcolm says that if these three amendments were "authentic," there wouldn't be a "race problem" in the United States.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Huey P. Newton tells police that the Constitution guarantees his right to not testify against himself because of this amendment.
What is the 5th Amendment?
In 1800, an enslaved person named Gabriel planned a large-scale slave rebellion in Virginia, but it never succeeded because of this.
What are rain and betrayal?
Malcolm's wife Betty is played by this Academy Award nominated actress.
Who is Angela Bassett?
Malcolm X used this term, taken from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel, to criticize Black leaders he saw as too submissive to white authority.
What is "Uncle Tom?"
True or False, the altercation from the chapter we read this week ended in zero casualties.
What is True?
The cotton gin was invented in 1793 to mechanically separates cotton seeds from the cotton fibers by this individual.
Who is Eli Whitney?