Malcolm X

The question of Malcolm X
1. Who was Malcolm’s mother?
Louise Norton, she was light skinned because her father was a red-haired white man.
2. Who founded the UNIA?
Marcus Garvey.
3. What was the Ku Klux Klan’s aim ?
Preventing black citizens from voting, getting, an education, or running a business.
4. Why did Malcolm change his hair to straight and conked?
He admired the cool cats(self-denial).
5. What was Malcolm’s white girlfriend’s name?
Sophia.
6. Did Malcolm love his white girlfriend?
No, he just wanted to show off.
7. Who’s Sammy ?
He was Malcolm’s burglarize partner, and he called Shorty to take Malcolm home.
8. Who taught Malcolm to use his brains?
Bimbi.
9. Who was the leader of NOI, and represented Allah in human form?
Fard
10. What’s the difference between UNIA and NOI?
For UNIA, they should return to Africa and be proud of being a black, do not want to become a white.
But, for NOI, blacks were superior to whites, and thought that all whites were enemies of blacks; the natural religion for blacks were Islam, so they were expected to live disciplined lives, giving up tobacco, alcohol, and unclean foods.
11. What’s the same between UNIA and NOI?
They intended to establish a separate all-black nation.
12. How was African American’s family name?
Their family name was the slaveholder’s, their real name was lost.
13. Which place was the black section of Boston?
Roxbury.
14.Who wrote “The Souls of Black Folk”?
W.E.B.Du Bois, a black historian and early civil rights leader.
15. Where the first NOI temple was founded?
Detroit.
16. What’s the NAACP?
National Association Advancement Colored People.
17. Who were the most important women in Malcolm’s life?
His mother, Louise; his half sister Ella, and his wife Betty.
18.Who’s Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A writer of the anti-slavery novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
19. What were the only three belongs of Malcolm?
His glasses, his watch, and his briefcase.
20. Which name did Malcolm often sign his letters?
El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.