Malcolm X And The Voting Rights Movement

The right to vote is one of the most cherished and important rights for each citizenship living in the United States. Unfortunately, throughout our history the right to vote was not the case for African Americas in the early part of the 20th century. African Americans have struggles to gain basic civil rights, such as the right to vote (Bayer). When marchers gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in the Selma Alabama, on march 7, 1965 to demand voting rights, the nations were forced to acknowledge the depth and breadth of racial discrimination and bigotry that existed in the United States (Bouyer). In in our history voting rights has come a long way in the past years. It has been a climatic battle that has captured and focused

He was an apostle of the black nationalism, self-respect and a polarizing figure who understood of what the nation of African Americans were suffering and the injustices. On April 12, 1964, he gave his “Ballot of the Bullet” speech at the King Solomon Baptist church in Detroit. It was a declaration of his black nationalist philosophy. His speech was empowering the black community to fight control of the “white man “by using ballot or the bullet. “The Ballot or the Bullet” became one of the Malcolm X’s most recognizable phrases and the speech was powerful to thousands of African American people. He outlined a new global sensibility in the fight for racial justice. He was known for captivating the idea to expand the freedom struggle from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights. After many years of injustices, the most powerful act to breach the injustice and destroying walls which imprison many African Americans is when President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the signing of the Voting Right Act of 1965. In addition, to the Act passed there was another influential person in our history was Martin Luther King, was one of the most beloved and one of the most hated men in our history. Martin Luther King legacy was very simple, equality and nonviolence. After the passing of the Civil Rights, King turned his focus completely to register all African Americans voters, especially in the South area. King, wrote, spoke and organized nonviolent protest and mass demonstrations to draw attention to racial discrimination and demand civil rights legislations to protect the rights of African Americans. He was a powerful with his movement that inspired many people across the nation. King put so much energy to fight for Civil Rights. In August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., organized a demonstration that drew more than 200,00 people in the