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Two answers required. These two people are the focus of the most recent season of Nat Geo’s Genius, which draws on Peniel Joseph’s book The Sword and the Shield and Jeff Stetson’s play The Meeting. One of these people never actually said that the other has done “a great disservice” according (-5[1])to research by Jonathan (10[1])Eig for his 2023 biography of one of them. These were the two most recent people to die (10[1])of the three who are the focus of the unfinished book Remember This House. (10[1])Opposing quotes by these people, and a photo of them (10[1])together, (10[1])appear (10[1])after the destruction of Sal’s (10[1])Pizzeria to end (10[1])the film (10[3])Do the Right Thing. (10[7]-5[3])One (10[1])year before going on Hajj, (10[2])one of these (10[1])people (10[2])mocked (10[3])the (10[2])other’s (10[6])“farce (10[6])on (10[1])Washington.” (10[8])For 10 points, (10[5])the labels of “militant” (10[3])and “pacifist” (10[2])are often given to what Civil Rights (10[2])leaders who were killed in 1965 and 1968? ■END■ (10[1])

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