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What is James Meredith place in the history of the civil rights movement?

What is the message James Meredith conveying today?

What do the lyrics sung by Nina Simone in “Revolution” mean?

   1.  How did Malcolm childhood experiences lead him to become a Black Muslim?              

    2.  Why did Malcolm Little change his name to X?

     3.  Why did Malcolm X drop out of the Black Muslim movement?

     4.  Who killed Malcolm X?  Why?

      5.  Malcolm X was a complex person who did many things.  Describe Malcolm X

           as a person.

Ralph Ellison wrote the Invisible Man, which stated…..
that blacks had created their own traditions, rituals, and a history that formed a cohesive and complex culture that was the source of a full sense of identity. When the protagonist in INVISIBLE MAN comes upon a yam seller (named Petie Wheatstraw, after the black folklore figure) on the streets of Harlem and remembers his childhood in a flood of emotion, his proclamation “I yam what I yam!” is Ellison’s expression of embracing one’s culture as the way to freedom

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ellison_r.html#top

Essential Question:

How does Ellison’s view compare with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X?