Malcom X was about a man that lived in America during the period in time with the racial segregation. The author uses the imagery and sentence structure to make it seem like you are there as or with Malcom. The book starts before his birth, when his mother ran the house and his father, an anti-white spokesman constantly was away.
This journal article belabours the point that is also a common theme in “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”: Malcolm’s changing views on civil rights. Again as a result of his tumultuous childhood because of the “white man”, Malcolm generalizes all white people as essentially haters of blacks because of the negative experiences he’s had with them and the tragic ways they treated him. But, as he grows older and matures, Malcolm has the eye-opening experience of seeing people of all colors worship next to each other. This is an interaction between blacks and whites that creates a positive environment as an outcome.
Both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr were civil right leaders who were well respected for their ideas. However, they had differences that would impact the success of their initiatives. Malcolm X had superior solutions for a strong centralized black community and a stable black economy, while King’s ideas made more sense in terms of his nonviolent philosophy and push for an integrated education system. Whiles Martin Luther King, Jr’s idea about blacks and whites together would work in a perfect society,America was far from a perfect society in the 1960s.
Many lead based off of their own personal belief systems. However, these men were both African American descent, but different in their styles of leadership during the Civil Rights Movement. Malcom and Martin political and religious backgrounds were different and played a vital role in their leadership efforts during the civil rights movement “One could probably say that Martin Luther King enjoyed the best that life had to offer at that time especially the presence of loving parents.
Author Abdul Karim Bangura presents a narrow perception of Malcolm X’s decisions towards the Civil Rights Act while Manning Marable dissects the prolonged circumstances Malcolm X captivated during the rise of the well-respected, political leader he would pride himself on during his campaigns. Abdul Karim Bangura’s representation of Malcolm X highlights the monumental power Malcolm X held over the harsh reality of the curated global image the United States had built, dismembering it over a short period of time, while Manning Marable documented the leader’s rebellion to the systematic choices that were engraved in societal standards. Malcolm X had become one of the most iconic faces of the civil rights movement by indicating a weaponised defence to protect those that were not already protected by the Civil Rights Act. Rather than finding solace and comfort within the Civil Rights Act that had been passed, Malcolm X’s political and social power had persuaded a significant amount of the United States population, let alone the global population, to fight for the rights that he felt were deserved instead of settling for what they had been ‘given’. Through understanding Malcolm X’s life-long accomplishments that would further outlive Malcolm X himself, historians would agree that unravelling the complexities of Malcolm X to truly understand his legacy would include his battle with social and political segregation, racism and power; he has become an influential figure in the history of the United States, the civil rights movement and Black nationalist
In the Malcom X Biography, by People Magazine, it describes the life and thoughts of Malcom X. Malcom was born in May of 1925 and from then on, he faced harassment from many. He married Betty Sander, in 1958 and had six girls together. Malcom grew up with a activist father and a caring mother. When he was four, their house was put on fire and was left to burn. After his father was attacked, his mother was sent to a mental hospital.
On April 3, 1964, Malcom X came to free the blacks from not slavery, but segregation with his speech: The ballot or the bullet. During his speech, he used Realism to expose the lie, ethos to fix the lie and his own perspective to support his speech altogether. In the first part of Malcom’s speech, he had a very weak hook making the audience very bored. He started off stating religion and how the audience needs to be together.
Malcom exhorted blacks to the cast off the shackles of racism by any means necessary, including violence. A violent revolution to
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. A Brief History with Documents written by David Howard-Pitney is a great history book that gives us an entry into two important American thinkers and a tumultuous part of American history. This 207-pages book was published by Bedford/St. Martin’s in Boston, New York on February 20, 2004. David Howard-Pitney worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University in 1986, and that made him a specialist on American civil religion and African-American leaders ' thought and rhetoric (208). Another publication of Howard-Pitney is The African-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America.
In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Xs’ trip to Mecca, his time in jail, and his discussion with Mr. Ostrowski best display the ideas of systemic oppression, racial identity, and integration vs. separation. Xs’ discussion with Mr. Ostrowski best represents systemic oppression. His time in jail displays to him ideas on racial identity and systemic oppression. His trip to Mecca reveals to him new ideas on racial identity along with integration vs. separation. Xs’ discussion with Mr. Ostrowski acts as an early revelation to him of the world that he lives in.
What separated Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X was that MLK wanted change quickly and he had the passion that the world would just stop and love one another. In some speeches he refers back to our rights as Americans. In MLK's “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin believed in equality, no discrimination and
MLK and Malcolm X both wanted equality but in different ways. Martin Luther King believed in nonviolence to end segregation. However, Malcolm X believed in segregation; where African Americans would govern themselves without bothering the whites. But which idea was better for society? Malcolm X’s philosophy offers a variety of solutions for
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.
The Story of Malcolm X Malcolm X was a Black rights activist during the 1960’s, he was regarded as a powerful speaker and a highly intelligent person. He was averse to blacks and white living in harmony, and spearheaded the black separatist movement. Malcolm X was not always the man that is taught to the public in history classes however, “Learning to read”, and excerpt from Malcolm X’s autobiography, recounts the tale of who Malcolm X was before he was well read, and how a prison’s library shaped views during the civil rights movement, and started fanning the flames for his racism.
What were Malcolm X’s beliefs? What did he hope to see change, and how for that matter did he believe he could make those changes happen? While analyzing Malcolm X and Black Rage, written by Cornel West, questions such as those are brought to light. Malcolm X’s motives are further explored as author Cornel West goes into depth and critiques Malcolm X’s tactics, such as black rage and psychic conversion, why they were such an important part of his philosophy, and if he believed said tactics were effective.
