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Compare And Contrast Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr

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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. As both were brought up differently and had all together different life experiences it was not unexpected for them to have completely different methods. Martin Luther King JR. was raised in a well off home with supportive parents. He would go on to get his Ph.D and would follow in his father’s footsteps and become a minister. He would encourage the black community to fight racism through non-violent protests. Marches and sit-in demonstrations were his preferred method of fighting for change, but he also wanted his people to be safe and not take any extreme risks with the police. Martin Luther King Jr. would take a journey to India to the birth place of Gandhi, who was another believer in non-violent …show more content…

Malcolm grew up with having multiple attacks on his home. His father was even thought to have been killed be white supremacists. He would eventually go into foster care and go to prison for ten years. Going to prison would change Malcolm’s life. It was then that his brother introduced him to the Nation of Islam. As a leader in the Nation of Islam he would encouraged the black community to fight racism “by any means necessary.” Malcolm would eventually change his philosophy after leaving the Nation of Islam and taking a journey through North America and the Middle East. During his time in the Middle East he would embark on the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, and convert to traditional Islam. He returned to America a changed man, finally believing that change could happen without

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