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Malcolm X In The Civil Rights Movement Essay

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Plan – Assess Malcolm X’s significance in advancing the civil rights movement from 1955 to 1965 Intro When it comes to addressing the importance of Malcolm X in the civil rights movement from 1955 to 1965; we need to look at both the significance of his actions and their short term and long term impacts. As well as evaluating his impact we need to make comparisons to other major figures and events at the same time so we can make a relative conclusion of Malcolm’s overall impact. I will also be contrasting some of the key figure heads, events movements and leaders of this time period for the civil rights and their relative effectiveness in forwarding the civil rights movement for African-Americans. I will discuss Malcolm and his actions in …show more content…

The way that for Malcolm this recognition advanced civil rights was due to an increased unionised movement and the idea that all blacks shouldn’t just ask kindly for power like Martin Luther King was doing, but too take it by force. The national recognition arguably lead to the formation of the Americans 1960’s “black power movement” (an adaption of Marcus Garvey’s 1920’s idea of black and white segregation.) In 1961, Elijah Muhammad the head of the NOI made Malcolm national representative of the Nation of Islam; this gave him an extended audience and platform to be able to try and persuade African Americans to take his side in being prepared to use violence if necessary to secure rights for themselves if the whites …show more content…

Following on from the success in 1960; Malcolm established a newspaper “Muhammad Speaks.” This was to expand the Nation of Islam's message, further adding to circulation of the NOI’s

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Organized into six topical groups, the author did an excellent job in comparing and contrasting King and Malcolm’s views on subjects including integration, the American dream, means of struggle, and opposing racial philosophies that needless any improvement. An interpretive introductory essay, chronology, bibliography, document headnotes, and questions for consideration provide further pedagogical support for students. The author explains how Malcolm X came closer than any social reformer in history to embodying and articulating the totality of the African experience in America while Martin Luther King was not only the most important figure in American religious history in the 20th century, he was arguably its most brilliant

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One can say that the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad did have involvement and gave the order in the assassination of Malcolm X however some say otherwise. This essay will discuss the involvement of the Nation of Islam as well as their leader Elijah Muhammad in Malcolm X’s assassination on 21 February 1965. Malcolm X was a former member of the Nation of Islam however his break away from the Nation of Islam led to tension amongst the organisation as well as their leader Elijah Muhammad who was said to have been involved with various women and many children coming from those women. Elijah Muhammad feared his reputation and Malcolm X knew about his doings and Muhammad would not want his doings to reach his people. The Nation of Islam and Elijah

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However, his attitudes became more tolerant and inclusive as his understanding of Islam became more universal. During his prison term, X receives notice of the propaganda purported by the Nation of Islam, a religion which holds white people responsible for the state of black people. As a man mistreated and imprisoned by white Americans throughout his life, it is unsurprising that X accepted Elijah Muhammad’s teachings as the truth, for it allowed him a chance to absolve himself by blaming white

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