Malcolm X

Question 1

Malcolm Little

Answer 1

Son og Garveyists, moves north running away from southern terros but still faces racism; father was murdered and his mom was institutionalized, putting him in the system

Question 2

Detroit Red

Answer 2

Petty criminal hustling to survive, defiant rejection of white authority and Black respectability; living fast, breaking rules, and chasing freedom; was sentenced 8-10 years for burglary in January 1946; incarceration would ignite an intellectual awakening

Question 3

Malcolm X

Answer 3

Discovers NOI in prison and is reborn; rises through the NOI and grows membership through secular appeal; gains a national platform where he rejects integration and embraces separation and self-defense; splits with the NOI and seeks a new path

Question 4

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

Answer 4

Pilgrimage to Mecca shatters racial dogma and shows unity across color lines; develops a new political vision: human rights and civil rights; assassinated 2/21/1965 in Audubon ballroom at 39

Question 5

Nation of Islam (NOI): view of form.

Answer 5

Black economic independence, rejection of white society and supremacy, moral discipline and self-respect

Question 6

Elijah Muhammad

Answer 6

Leader of the NOI

Question 7

Malcolm’s view on self-defense

Answer 7

Embraced self-defense

Question 8

Importance to Pilgrimage to Mecca to his religious world view (1964)

Answer 8

Pilgrimage to Mecca shatters racial dogma and shows unity across color lines;

Question 9

Assassination (1965)

Answer 9

assassinated 2/21/1965 in Audubon Ballroom at 39