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3 unusual facts about The Ballot or the Bullet


The Ballot or the Bullet

Malcolm said that the philosophy of Black nationalism was being taught in the major civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, CORE, and SNCC.

Whereas the Civil Rights Movement advocated on behalf of integration and against segregation, the Nation of Islam favored separatism.

Southern Democrats, sometimes called Dixiecrats, blocked the bill from consideration by the House of Representatives.


Your Favorite Weapon

A line in "The Shower Scene" (which itself is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho) which reads "It's time for you to choose / The bullet or the chapstick" is an allusion to a speech by Malcolm X entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet".


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