During the sixties, African-Americans dealt with unjust treatments such as segregation of bathrooms, restaurants, movie theaters, schools, and water fountains. Integration was a big part of the American Political Agenda, in an attempt to make blacks feel that they were a part of America. Many African- Americans tried to go along with integration in order to feel welcome in a country that their ancestors helped build. However, there were blacks who didn’t feel they should have to play the game and that it was their right to be seen as citizens and treated as equals. African-Americans fought for many years to receive equal treatment, by creating multiple marches to protest unfair treatment and fighting back against white supremacy but we are …show more content…
In reading 17 the writer talks about Malcolm X’s life and how he grew up in a bad environment which led him to be put in jail for 10 years allegedly due to burglaries he committed. But while in jail Malcolm X began to educate himself and was introduced to the teaching of Muhammad and became a member of the Nation of Islam. Exposed to intellectual movements by his parents, who were part of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In 1964, Malcolm X went a different route and decided to leave the Nation of Islam to start his own black nationalist party that would fight for civil …show more content…
The Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party differed because the Black Panther Party actually fought to change racism but the Nation of Islam did not participate in politics. The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary party created to protect African- Americans from police brutality in Oakland, California. In reading 17, they discuss what the Black Panther party demands in their ten-point program “ full employment, decent housing, education for all, an end to police brutality, and the liberation of black men imprisonment in federal and state penitentiaries. Significantly the tenth point in the BPP party demanded: Land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and