This speech criticized the March on Washington by saying “[they] made you think you were going somewhere and you end up going nowhere.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this speech that warned of a racial “powder keg” more dangerous than Russian atomic bombs. This speech exhorted African Americans of all faiths to fight for civil rights with either of its two title means.
ANSWER: “The Ballot or the Bullet”
[10e] Give this term for the preserved remnants of ancient organisms. Mary Anning found many of these specimens in the cliffs of Lyme Regis, including coprolites and plesiosaurs.
ANSWER: fossils
[10e] This Muslim civil rights activist delivered the “Ballot or the Bullet” speech. This activist’s schism with the Nation of Islam led to his assassination.
ANSWER: Malcolm X [or Malcolm Little; accept el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; prompt on X]
[10h] Georges Cuvier proposed this theory to explain the fossil record in the 19th century. Charles Lyell’s uniformitarianism replaced this theory, which held that change resulted from climactic events like the biblical flood.
ANSWER: catastrophism [accept catastrophists]
[10h] Jackie Robinson criticized this politician’s suggestion that Black people should boycott the NAACP and follow Malcolm X instead. This former pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church attended the Bandung conference.
ANSWER: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. [prompt on Adam Clayton Powell]
[10m] Lyell’s theory of gradual change inspired both Darwin and this author of Social Statics. This inventor of the paperclip is now infamous for applying the “survival of the fittest” to human societies.
ANSWER: Herbert Spencer
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