How Is Martin Luther King Jr And Malcom X Alike

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X were both African American civil rights activists who fought for other African American’s Rights. Martin Luther King Jr. became famous for writing the speech called “I have a Dream.” Malcom X is famous for his talks, debates and for starting the organization of Afro-American Unity known as a secular political group. After being released from prison, Malcom X became an Assistant Minister of the Nation of Islam’s Detroit Temple. Then he became a Minister of a Nation of Islam’s at a New York Temple. Dr. King wanted African Americans to be free, and have the right to vote, and for blacks to have the same rights as everyone else, he also wanted peace, and for the violence to stop. Malcom X wanted a separate “nation”

King and Malcom X were religious leaders, Dr. King was a Reverend and Malcom X was a Minister. Dr. King said the key principles that would guide the Montgomery Bus Boycott were nonviolence, Christian love, and unity. Dr. King was chosen as the leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association. On June 4th, 1956, a panel of three federal judges struck down Montgomery’s bus segregation ordinances as unconstitutional. The on November 13th, the Supreme Court agreed with the district court ruling. After eleven long, hard months and against all the odds, the boycotters won. The victory of the boycotters inspired the creation of a mass movement for the African American Civil Rights. The struggles to end legal segregation took place in many southern cities and towns. African American communities led fights, and developed a wide variety of tactics, leaders, and ideologies. With white allies, the blacks engaged in direct action protests such as boycotts, sit-ins, and mass civil disobedience, as well as many legal battles in the state and federal courts. The Civil Rights Movement created new social identities for African Americans, and inspired a new “rights consciousness” among other minority groups, and profoundly changed American

In December, the arrival of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference transformed Albany into a national symbol of the struggle. King himself was twice arrested in the summer of 1962, but Albany officials quickly freed him to avoid negative publicity. At the end of 1962, King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference allies decided to launch a new campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was the most segregated big city in America, and had a deep history of racial violence at the time. African Americans endured total segregation in schools, restaurants, city parks, and department store dressing rooms. King was arrested and put in Birmingham jail and wrote “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” set out the key moral issues at stake, and sneered at those who claimed the campaign was illegal and ill timed. After his release on bail, the campaign