1. Bell Ringer – 4/14/08
Write a paragraph explaining your reaction to the Hurricane Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke”

2. What’s Ahead?
Chapter 22 ( ) – Malcolm X, Integration, Muhammad Ali, MLK, Soul Music
Chapter 23 ( ) – Black politicians, affirmative action, South African apartheid, reparations, HIV/AIDS
Chapter 24 (The New Millennium) – Success vs. Poverty, incarceration, Hip-hop, reggae, rap, Afrocentricity, religion
Student Presentations – African-American culture today

3. Malcolm X Born Malcolm Little, grew up in Lansing, MI
His family’s home was burned by Klan terrorists and his father was murdered by a white man
Went to juvenile detention, quit school after 8th grade, moved to Boston. A life of gambling, drugs, & burglary led him to prison for 6.5 years
Studied teachings of Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, renounced “slave name” of Little

4. Malcolm’s views The voice of northern urban ghettos
Dismissed King’s message of redemption through brotherly love
“Revolutions are based on bloodshed”

5. Life Change
In 1964 he broke from the Nation of Islam & founded the “Muslim Mosque” organization
After a pilgrimage to Mecca (Saudi Arabia) he denied the N of I doctrine that all white people are evil and began lecturing on civil rights
Malcolm X was shockingly murdered by N of I assassins as he addressed an audience in Harlem

6. Homework Read Ch 22, Sn 1 (pgs 793-802)
Answer all questions & define key terms on page 793