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This man went by "Detroit Red" during a period in which he engaged in various criminal activities in Boston and Harlem.
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.In a letter by this man, he expressed great surprise after being given a bed by a high-ranking United Nations diplomat in a letter he wrote after giving a speech that broke with his previous opposition to involvement in government and claimed that "Uncle Sam's hands are dripping with blood".
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1965 Assassination
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A photo published in Life Magazine shows the activist Yuri Kochiyama holding this person's head after his death.
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Another Pulitzer-winning biography of this man by Les and Tamara Payne is titled The Dead Are Arising.
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Another work by this man compares Zionists to the Moors and asserts that the occupation of Palestine has "no intelligent or legal basis in history"
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Black Nationalist Leader
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Chickens Coming Home To Roost
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Claims that this man was in a same-sex relationship with a white businessman are part of a controversial Pulitzer-winning biography of this man by Manning Marable, A Life of Reinvention.
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Elijah Muhammad's Student
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He claimed that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a case of "the chickens coming home to roost," leading to his falling-out with the Elijah Muhammad-led Nation of Islam, whose members would later assassinate him.
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In 1965, this man was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom
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In a speech, this man proclaimed "today, it's time to stop singing and start swinging," since "singing" didn't help Cassius Clay "to become the heavyweight champion of the world."
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In a speech, this man stated that "you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American . . . you catch hell because you're a black man."
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In his "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech, this man urged African Americans to vote, but to be prepared to fight if the government would not grant them equality.
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In one speech, this man argued that Plymouth Rock "was landed on us."
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One work by this figure uses the example of a king with an unknown past to illustrate the claim that "there was no such thing as Judaism in Isaac's day"
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Temple Number Seven
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This founder of Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom.
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This man began one of his speeches by addressing "Brother Lomax." In that speech, he references two men "exchang[ing] some wheat" as well as the "great controversy over rifles and shotguns."
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This man claimed that certain children were having an inferiority complex bred into them in the 1959 documentary The Hate that Hate Produced
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This man encouraged blacks both to use their right to vote and to take up arms against the government in "The Ballot and the Bullet" speech
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This man led Temple Number Seven in Harlem and led a mob in New York City to protest the arrest of Johnson Hinton
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This man left his mentor's organization after learning of his extramarital affairs with multiple secretaries.
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This man said that "some blue-eyed devil had imposed" his ancestors with a slavemaster's name in an autobiography co-written by Alex Haley.
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This man's autobiography, which was adapted by Spike Lee, includes an account of his 1964 hajj and his "second conversion" to Sunni.
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This man's grandson killed this man's wife, Betty Shabazz.
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This person claimed to receive "spiritual insights" into American racial animosity after observing unity between "blue-eyed blondes" and "black-skinned Africans" during his hajj.
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This person gained public fame after an interview of him by Louis Lomax was included in the vilifying documentary The Hate That Hate Produced.
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This person pointed out that, "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us" in a speech given on Easter Sunday.
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