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Compare And Contrast Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X

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During the 1960s in the U.S. life was built around segregation. In which transportation, schools, restaurants, bathrooms and even drinking fountains were separated into two groups. These groups being “whites” and “colored.” If anyone tried to break through these racist ideologies/practices they were threatened, arrested, attacked, and possibly killed. During this time, two African American men led the Civil Rights movement. These men were known as Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X and were categorized as opposites in the eyes of society. Where King utterly supported nonviolence and X supported the idea of utilizing any means necessary, even violence, in order to gain headway in the fight for equality. Martin Luther King’s concept of nonviolence …show more content…

Martin Luther King’s strategy was the easiest to conduct as it was less of a risk of harm for the people involved. As they were being peaceful so they would not give people a reason to attack them. With this, if they were attacked, it would be seen as a more inhumane act of unnecessary violence. An example of this was when in 1963, peaceful protestors in Alabama were sprayed with fire hoses which established society viewing the incident as outrageous and awful. This was also demonstrated when three men were killed in Mississippi because of their involvement in the Civil Rights movement. They had been helping African Americans register to vote in the South. Their murders caused public disapproval due to the brutal way they were killed, as they were tortured, beaten, and shot. This angered society furthermore as these men never did any action with malice or provoked …show more content…

This led to more Whites joining the cause as they were more accepted in going to the protests and speeches and they did not have as high of a risk transpiring in the crowds. Also, this nonviolence was supported through the Brown vs Board of Education verdict in which it was deemed unconstitutional to have segregated schooling as it created unequal opportunities for the individual races. In this, select children were allowed to go to “white” schools. They were harassed and threatened every day they went to school. This angered civilians as they were innocent and possessed no ill intentions as they just wanted to have a proper education and possibly introduce the practice of a simple form of integration. This unwarranted hate and aggression were also a result of African Americans being able to vote in certain elections in the South. These voters were attacked, beaten, and killed solely for wanting a say in who controls the decisions that influence their lives. The disapproval and aggression angered African Americans more as during this time it was quite common for African Americans to be nannies for White families. Which meant that these people were able to raise and influence the next generation but were not allowed to vote for their own rights. Also, through the Civil

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They had worked so hard to gain more rights and they didn’t want to go back to where they started so they kept fighting for their rights. The fight for their rights though once again became one involved with bloodshed. White supremacists still did not want African Americans to gain the right to vote or have any real civil rights and because of this, killing occurred, “… Maceo Snipes, a veteran, was murdered shortly after becoming the first black person in his county registered to vote” (Painter 252). These killings were meant to prove a point to all other blacks that if they tried to exercise their rights they would be killed as well. However, the Truman Administration, became a supporter of African American rights and the Democratic party in turn began to support their civil rights.

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Originally, African Americans had to be segregated and weren’t even allowed to vote. In 1965 after the Montgomery March, Lyndon B Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act, and later in 1968 both the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Fourteenth Amendment were passed. The Fourteenth Amendmendment said that “all persons born of naturalized in the United States” could legally vote. These acts got rid of literacy tests, and in 1968, when Nixon became president (Document H), there was over two times the amount of African American voters than there was in 1960 (Document G). African Americans also gained large support from a president, John F. Kennedy, which wasn’t something anyone had expected looking back at how past presidents acted.

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The time following the civil war was one of raising racial tension in the south. It was a time when southern whites could not truly accept the change that had came and did not want to give African Americans the chance to be equal. This often could lead to false accusations of rape which would then lead to the lynching’s of innocent African Americans. The lynching’s were in part to try and install fear and redact any new power African American’s could have had, but also centered around false rape accusations that were partially used to try and protect white women’s purity; instead of allowing the possibility that there could have been consensual relations between people of two separate races.

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By now everyone knows who Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr is, but not everyone knows what led up to them both being the civil rights leaders that they are. Malcolm X was one of the civil rights leaders who believed in making businesses for black people, whereas Martin Luther King Jr wanted to make white people give black people jobs in their businesses. These two would start a big war about whether or not black people should join white businesses or if they should make their own and leave white businesses alone.

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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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Two of the most significant individuals are Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. During the American civil rights movement. Although the two leaders had distinct ways of combating structural racism and injustice, King's theory ultimately prevails over Malcolm X's. The references discussed why King's perspective is superior to Malcolm X's, especially in terms of bringing about long-lasting change. The two leaders' approaches to nonviolence were one of their most significant distinctions.

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For centuries, African Americans fought a losing battle against slave owners for equality. However, in the mid- twentieth century Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X emerged, and shook the foundation of slavery in ways that will never be forgotten. The two served as influential leaders, and a symbol of unity for colored people across the nation. Though King and X had radically different means of operating, they had a similar goal in mind, equal rights for African Americans. Dr.King was born on January 15, 1929, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

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All blacks in the 1950s to the 1960s were living very miserable. Many white people didn't like African Americans because of their skin color. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were two of the many people that gave speeches on Civil Rights. African Americans being treated differently were the reasons for the Civil Rights speeches. Whites tortured African Americans just because their skin tone was different.

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Issues with racism and equality have plagued America for centuries. 50 years ago, the tensions came to a peak, and two key figures wrote to inspire the nation to come together. These two leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, impacted the thoughts and actions of many people throughout their lives. They each wrote influential essays that persuaded the rest of the nation to fight for equality. While in a Birmingham jail cell, MLK composed a letter to eight clergymen from Alabama who did not believe it was the right time to fight for equality.

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For example, Sir King always followed a non-violent way to solve problems, while Sir Malcolm X always chose a way that equality can be achieved in any way if it is necessary, which means he approved of being violent. It is mostly because they have grown up with completely different social backgrounds. However, M.L. King saw the world from a good perspective to win equal rights for his people, while Sir Malcolm X saw the world in timid anger and from a revengeful perspective. In my opinion, I believe the procedure of how Martin Luther King protested is the best way to win equal rights. He always chose peace over

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Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were two influential men who served as important figures for the Civil Rights Movement. The two men came from diverse backgrounds and had contrasting views in life about religion and African American’s stance in society. Malcolm X was born in Nebraska and had great amounts of exposure to racism. Martin Luther King was born in an educated family in Atlanta, where he experienced racism, but to a lower extreme than Malcolm X. Although they passed away long time ago, they continue to live on today in a world independent of segregation. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X used opposing principles to achieve equality for blacks; King utilized integration of both races and nonviolence as opposed to Malcolm X who separated the same races and employed non violence so as to achieve the same goal.

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The collapse of the Reconstruction Era in the south led to the rise of white supremacy and discrimination against African people. There were many state laws and acts like segregation made to make African Americans feel lower than everyone else, dehumanizing them. Africans all over the country wanted change and equality in their communities and these people coming together to make a change lead to the civil rights era. The Civil rights Era, a period of time in the United States between 1954- 1968, was a nonviolent social movement and campaign to abolish segregation, racism, and white supremacy. Additionally, during this era, civil rights activists organized protests, sit-ins, marches, and boycotts to fight for their rights.

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Despite the horrors of the crime, it made a segregated nation come together and rally for the rights of every colored man, woman, and child. The murder brought attention to hate crimes, which were so often ignored-until it happened to a 14 year-old child. While people took notice of the brutality of hate, the death also brought attention to the less gruesome but cruel parts of society: Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks from whites and forced people to use public facilities based on the color of their skin. As people began to recognize the injustices of society, the Civil Rights Movement launched, finally changing American government and society.

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Throughout his speeches, he spoke about the importance of violence and how it was often necessary to endure such harm, once stating, “Power real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action” (www.biography.com). Although these two men differed in their thought on violence, they often agreed on how important their fights were. Without Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, Civil Rights would have been nonexistent,

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That made it difficult for African Americans to vote also the Ku Klux Klan was a danger for African Americans because of so many lynches that happened in the south to discouraged voters. Then “from the late 1870s onward, southern legislatures passed a series of laws requiring the separation of whites from “persons of color” on public transportation, in schools, parks, restaurants, theaters, and other locations” (Costly) known as the Jim Crow laws. The case Plessy v. Ferguson was based in Louisiana where an incident happened when an African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. This case went up to the Supreme Court because of the law that was broken and it became a significant to African Americans where stood under the law. The Supreme Court argued that Plessy was treated equal there was no Constitution veiled but he broke the law by not sitting where he didn’t belong.

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