Transcript Pre-Class 5/11/10

Pre-Class
5/11/10
1. Take out your HW from last night
– (Completed Black Panther/SNCC sheet)
2. Take out a clean sheet of loose leaf paper
– Name and Date at Top
3. Take out a writing utensil
In-Class writing response time!
*If you were absent yesterday…
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Copy down the writing response assignment (next slide)
Raise your hand to get my attention.
Wait patiently/quietly for further instructions.
Assignment – Informal response (min ½ page)
• What are the two opposing views on how to create
equality between races in 1960s America? Support
your answer with 1 example from each mission
statement. (Each example should demonstrate each opposing view)
• Be sure to underline examples (2 total)
• Explain and describe your examples thoroughly.
– Don’t just say, “My first example is…”
– Describe how your example shows the 2 opposing views
on creating equality
Quick Thought
• Where does your last name come from?
• What does your last name describe about who
you are?
• Answer both questions in 5 lines in your notes
Welcome!
Today’s Agenda:
1. Pre-Class & Roll
2. Overview HW
3. In-Class Writing
4. Quick Thought
5. Malcolm X
6. Wrap Up
5/11/10
Today’s Objectives:
1. To learn about Malcolm
X
2. To learn about the
Nation of Islam
3. To understand, “by any
means necessary”
Malcolm Little
• He was born in
Nebraska
• Father was a black
activist
– Killed by the KKK
– Pushed in front of
moving street car
• Mom flipped out over
dad’s murder
– Mental Hospital for 26
years
Teenage Years
• Dropped out of School
• Lived in Lansing, MI
• Made a living through
– Drug dealing
– Gambling
– Robbery
• Arrested at age 20 for
Armed Robbery  sent to
prison
Prison Years
• While in prison, meets Elijah Muhammad
• Elijah Muhammad is the leader of the Nation of
Islam
– Religious group that teaches – total and complete
separation of blacks from whites
– Whites = blue-eyed devils
– Muslim connection – believed that Africans were the
original Muslims
MY NAME IS MALCOLM, MALCOLM X!
Malcolm X saw the name of “Malcolm Little”
as a slave name.
Malcolm X and the CRM
• Radicalized groups of young black men in the
CRM
• Preached the idea of Equality by “any means
necessary”
• Malcolm X’s views were opposite to MLK’s
– Saw nonviolent movement as hurting “the cause”
Malcolm X Critical of MLK
• “Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all
harmonizing "We shall overcome ... Suum Day.. ."
while tripping and swaying along arm-in-arm with
the very people they were supposed to be angrily
revolting against ? Who ever heard of angry
revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with
their oppressor in lily-pad park pools, with gospels
and guitars and "I have a dream" speeches? And the
black masses in America were - and still are - having
a nightmare.”
Malcolm X in reference to the March
on Washington
“If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me
because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring cream
into it. I integrate it with cream. If I keep pouring
enough cream in the coffee, pretty soon the entire
flavor of the coffee is changed; the very nature of the
coffee is changed. If enough cream is poured in,
eventually you don't even know that I had coffee in this
cup. This is what happened with the March on
Washington. The whites didn't integrate it; they
infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they
became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It
ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it
ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it
ceased to be a march.”
Malcolm X on seeking equality
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law,
respect everyone; but if someone puts his
hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can
give you equality or justice or anything. If
you're a man, you take it.”
Malcolm X on Hajj
• 1964, Malcolm X makes his
pilgrimage to Mecca
• Discovers that orthodox
Muslims are nothing like
the Nation of Islam
• Guess what Orthodox
Muslims preach?
• EQUALITY FOR ALL RACES!
• Malcolm begins to distrust
the NoI – gets into fights
with Elijah Muhammad
over the true meaning of
Islam
• Malcolm X views of white
people changes due to Hajj
• Changed name to Malcolm
Shabazz
The Assassination
• Feb. 21st 1965
• Gunned down by 3 black
members of the Nation of
Islam
• Was shot 16 times
• 3 men were arrested, all
have been released from
prison within the last 20
years