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How Did Malcolm X Change The Battle For Civil Rights

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From Malcolm Little to Malcolm X Malcolm X took the Nation of Islam from a small 400 people to 10,000 official members and an unknown number of sympathizers (Contemporary Heroes and Heroines). This is just one of the actions Malcolm X did that helped him change the overall battle for civil rights. At the time, Blacks were very segregated against and they faced many challenges that were put against them. It was a kind of violent and tense feeling between African Americans and White people, but Malcolm X changed the view of African Americans and White people perspective on segregation. Through traveling and spreading his new ideas through speeches, Malcolm X was able to change the denied freedom and equality the nation denied African Americans to the beginning of a new fight for civil rights that overall …show more content…

He talked all over and became very well known, he became the face of Islam for African Americans then and he was able to spread his message in an easier way. Finally, Malcolm was a great speaker and did as much as he could to become known and spread his message. Malcolm had changed the views of the civil rights movement, but it took some work; in 1961, he founded a newspaper called Muhammad Speaks which sparked the official start of the movement. The new movement he sparked provided a place for African Americans that had different ideas of persuasion (Dictionary of American Biography). He was such a great speaker and advocate of Islam, he created his own newspaper where he could spread his idea of civil rights and spread his message to as many people as

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