Compare And Contrast Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr

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Brian Ocano
Mr. Lee
English 2
15 February 2017
Autobiography of Malcolm X & Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King and Malcolm x have impacted the world greatly, but do you think that Dr. King has impacted the world more than Malcolm x how and why do you think so? Dr. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta Georgia to Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King Sr. Kings father was an American Pastor/rev and Missionary and he was also an early figure in the civil rights movement. He then took the place of his father in-law, as a Pastor of the Ebeneezer Baptist church. His wife was a Sunday school teacher and earned her teaching certificate in the Hampton normal and industrial institute which is now known as “Hampton University” and

Malcolm was born as Malcolm little on 1925, in Omaha Nebraska. His father was a Baptist preacher and his follower/friend was Marcus Garvey founder of the ‘Universal Negro Improvement Association. Malcolm’s family always got watched at night by the “Ku Klux Clan” and they violated their home and threaten them when father wasn’t home. One day the family had enough and moved out of the house and moved to Lansing, Michigan. Malcolm was sent to a foster home soon after his father died in the hands of the Clan people say he committed suicide by laying in front of a trolley and getting his head smashed and almost decapitating it from his body. Malcolm underwent a nervous breakdown in school which he had never recover. Malcolm dropped out after the eighth grade and headed for a life of crime and wore zoot suits and change his name to “Detroit Red” and straighten his hair to affect a white look. When Malcolm was twenty-one he was sentenced to prison for stealing from white people, where he then learns the teachings of Elijah Muhammad the leader of the “Lost-Found nation of Islam. Most known as the “Black Muslims” Malcolm proves and shows that he can be a follower and a true disciple of the Muslim colony, there is where he then adopted the “x” as his last name which signifies that he was no longer a

King and Malcolm are both generous black men and both did make a change but Dr. King’s change was greater and did really impacted the world more than Malcolm. I know that we celebrate Kings day because I know that it is right, thanks for him I can be in the school that I am in and that we can sit in the same bus thanks to Rosa Parks boy caught problem. Dr. King was always on top of his game I hoped that Malcolm could have done the same. Both men had good faith in their religions and did understand it they know that they will be rewarded when it all wines down to an and Malcolm die by assassination in one of his pep- rallies on the 21st of February of 1965, by one of his Muslim companions. Three years later Dr. King also got assassinated in April 4th of 1998 it was tragic for both of their death and they both know that they will be