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Compare And Contrast Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr

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Integration versus Separation
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HIST115-006-Fall2015: Afro-Amer Hist Sin 1865
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Throughout the years, there were many African American men and women that made very protrusive contributions. In the forefront of all the great African American leaders that came to past, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, despite the contradicting philosophies, are considered to be the most influential African American leaders. These two men worked hard during the Civil War, and fought for what they each believed to be right for African Americans. With the agitating problem of discrimination …show more content…

Martin Luther King Jr., a minister from Atlanta, Georgia, was a man of God and was in full support of peaceful protest. King considered himself to be soft and gentle. Dr. King, although never retaliating back to physical violence in a physical manner, was always against violence. Martin Luther King was an advocate for peace, positivity, and love. King wanted African Americans to be viewed as equal in the same communities as whites, opposed to the philosophies of Malcolm X, who wanted to achieve complete separation from the whites. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s, a committee full of students that had full support from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. statement of purpose was that nonviolent resistance seeks a social order of justice permeated by love, (Chalberg) meaning that instead of engaging in the a violent protest, peaceful, nonviolent protest was the best way to achieve integration. King was devising a plan to lead a bloodless revolution. Based off the text, titled Black Political Action in the South, a bloodless revolution would change the entire political structure of the country. It would wipe the Southern segregationism that now controls America’s foreign policy, as well as America’s domestic policy. (Frazier) Dr. King’s methods were put in place to achieve integration, but prevent violence through race

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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr's techniques are very different, but similar. They both want the same thing: negro companies. The way they carry out this, though, is different. Malcolm wants to make his own negro company. Furthermore, Martin wants to protest peacefully by banning products from companies that do not hire negroes.

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Malcolm X and Martin Luther KIng Jr are both very critical parts in the fight for social and economic justice for african americans in the 60s though both of these men fought for the same things they had different ways of thinking and different strategies that they used to get this economic and social justice/eqaulity. Martin Luther KIng Jr and Malcolm X were both very smart men with great ideas that helped african americans take a step closer to getting the eqaulity they deserved economically and socially. Martin Luther King Jr was a well known african american civil rights activist in the 60s that voiced his opinion and ideas in order to make a change. Martin Luther King Jr had many stratigies when it came to getting what he wanted and what he wanted more than anything at the time was a equal economic status for african americans. At this time in the 60s african

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Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass shared the same purpose throughout the two excerpts. They thought that it was unfair for black people to be neglected from an education because of their skin color. However, the way they chose to address their audience was immensely different from one another. Malcolm X chose to use a more angry and harsh tone of voice in order to get his point across to the reader. He wanted his audience to see how he truly felt about black people not being able to receive an education.

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Martian Luther King Jr and Malcom X where two political figures during the civil rights movement, both men stood and fought for the same reason but both had very different ways in which they would approach how they fought. Martian Luther King Jr took a difference approach to what Malcom X took, mostly he was very against violence and tried to tell the people to stand up by using their words and not be physical but on the other hand Malcom X took a completely different approach a lot of the time telling people violence is sometimes needed to get the message across and make a change. Both approaches from the two men were completely different but both worked much in the same way and helped support African American at the time, they both show how sometimes each style of approach can be used and when some is more effective than another in certain situations.

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Ocano.1 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.

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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr were undeniably large figureheads in the push for equal and better rights for African Americans in the 1960s. However they were not both civil rights leaders as Malcolm X goes to great lengths to clarify he is not advocating for civil rights but human rights. Both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X wanted freedom for themselves and other African-Americans however had different opinions on how to obtain that goal. Malcolm X followed a philosophy Karl Marx, and Martin Luther King followed a philosophy closer to John Locke.

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The most important decision of a leader is the style of leading they decide to use when inspiring others, or providing a vision for the future. By looking at the past, it is proven that some leadership styles are guaranteed to be more effective than others. The leadership style of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights provides significant evidence of how different styles of leading can turn out to be a major success or defeat. Malcolm X’s leadership style included using violence to protest against violence and unequal rights, as well as supporting the segregation of African Americans and the whites. Martin Luther King’s style included nonviolent marches and protests against violence, and peacefully fighting for integrating the blacks and whites.

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Malcolm and Martin Malcolm X and Martin Luther King JR. have many things in common. Not only were they both prominent figures in the civil rights movement, but they were also highly religious. While they studied different religions, Christianity and Muslim, both would be lead them to become activists. However, while there goals for their communities were the same the way they went about achieving those goals were vastly different.

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Martin Luther King Jr (MLK). and Malcolm X definitely had their differences in many ways. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X both played very big roles in the Civil Rights Movement whether it was their speeches or the Groups they led they had made an impact. MLK had a peaceful approach to gaining equal rights while Malcolm X had “by any means necessary” approach to equal rights. If you ask most people the most memorable thing about MLK is his speech starting with the words “I have a dream”.

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Coming from a family which saw both his Grandfather and Father attending and graduating from the prestigious Morehouse College, his success was almost inevitable arguably bolstering his abilities in his future career, as intelligence and strategic planning were very much his ally. Malcolm X on the other hand came from a family dealing with the negative effects of having an outspoken black right activist within its mists. Born Malcolm Little in 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm’s family were notorious in an area known for, what the Klu Klux Klan called, “good Negroes.” Malcolm’s father Earl Little, himself from a family of activists for civil rights; was a prominent supporter of the ‘Back to Africa movement’ proposed by Marcus Garvey in the 1920s.

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Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were the two most important icons during the civil right movement, in the 1960s. These two men have impacted the way Americans live today in a number ways. After slavery was made illegal in the United States, things were still difficult for black Americans. Many people were angry and displeased when slavery was ended, and lawmakers in some states, especially in the Southern States, made special rules to keep white people and black people apart.

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Influenced by his devastating childhood, Malcolm X subsequently led a campaign protesting for white America to atone for its sins committed against black people because “an integrated cup of coffee isn’t sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor” (Doc C). Malcolm wanted to separate from the “wicked white race” (Doc C) to fulfill his policy in which the “black man should control the politics and the politician in his own community”(Doc D). Integration was MLK’s answer to the black person’s predicament, contrary to Malcolm’s resolution of blacks making their own separate community for themselves, away from the

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Martin Luther King Jr said,“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”. In the late 1960s, racial tension was high, African Americans were not given the right to vote, the right to a fair education, and the right to a fair judgement. This then led to the separation of schools and the destruction of a normal livelihood. Dr.King and Malcolm X, two men in the face of oppression rose up to challenge the racial barrier, thus changing the world forever. Although Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X seem to have mutual respect and an equal understanding of the inequality, their philosophies were quite different from each other.

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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, both important male figures within the black movement, differed stylistically in approach, and as result, continue to be portrayed contrastingly in media. King, has always been viewed as the less radical, more softer, and politically driven, while Malcolm X is seen as harsh, radical, and often continues to be widely demonized in pop culture. And, the difference essentially comes about from their approach. King focused on a more political, nonviolent approach, while Malcolm X valued a black nationalist approach. While culturally these two men have contrasting impacts on society, they are similar in radical approaches.

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were African American males, fighting for Civil Rights during the 1950’s and 1960’s. while these two men did withstand much common ground, they often debated over violence. On one hand, Martin Luther King Jr. was born into a Christian home, where he was extremely religious, and followed in his father's footsteps as a pastor. Martin Luther King Jr. felt that violence did no good, it only caused more harm. Throughout his speeches and protests, he even elaborated on how insignificant violence and harm was in hurting others, besides physically.

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