Martin was raised in Atlanta, George to a religious, middle-class family with values in education. Both Martin’s father and grandfather were pastors. Their protests symbolized a desire for equality with Whites. Malcolm X was unlike King, he did not have a university education; he came from the "bottommost" of black the social order, not from the middle class. Malcolm X rejected integration and wanted to insist his blackness over and against his American identity. As a child, Malcolm experience not only but violence of whites but also the violence of his mother and father against each other and seven brothers and sisters and himself. While Martin could scarcely recollect his mother and father quarreling Malcolm parents continuously appear to