Mlk Vs Malcolm X

In the book, “Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s: A brief History with Documents” by David Howard-Pitney. The book portrays the two main figures during the Civil Rights Movement in the early to-mid 20th century. During this time, Malcolm X and MLK had different strategies in trying to achieve rights for African Americans. However, it would have been harder to achieve the Civil Rights movement without Malcolm X with his troubled childhood, his impactful speeches, and Islam religion.

From the end of Malcolm X life, he knew the end was near for him as he predicted from his father’s murder, he would have the similar fate.

For Malcolm X and MLK Jr., they both had experiences from their childhood

One of them was Integration v. Separation between African Americans and whites. MLK Jr. advocated greatly for non-violence, as he realized that violence was not the right way to achieve integration. Instead, he would implement peaceful protests and patient negotiations to his followers, as it would demonstrate them less barbaric than white people. Even though, his approach would not change overnight. When King was put into jail for the first time, he demonstrated that even in jail, he still had the same beliefs for the movement when he wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail, saying,“we will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.” This illustrated how after his arrest, he still called for unity and peaceful protest, maintaining his optimism for integration. However, this approach was idealistic in America during this time as he never experience true segregation being from a middle class family, it allowed him to escape prison easily than other black folks. He was brought up being integrated later on in his schooling with whites, knowing that integration can exist. Nevertheless, Malcolm X believed in separation and preached about

and Malcolm X famous speeches, I have insight of these two figures during the Civil Rights movement. Through reading their letters and speeches, I believe that Malcolm X had the greater impact on the struggle over civil rights due to making realistic speeches that did not gave false hope to African Americans that one day they would be integrated into a white society, instead, they would be better off separated. From spreading violence in his speeches, but non-violent protests through his religion, he became the figure of the Civil Rights movement. Through their speeches, the two figures of the Civil Rights movement changed over time. Malcolm X, in the begging of the movement, he did not want to have white allies, but later on he did need them and he thought it was not so bad. And King was suffering economic issues, so when the boycott was happening, he wanted to fix economic integration before race integration. I believe that Martin Luther King Jr. is the most influential today because he is more accepted into our society by having a holiday and schools named after him. While Malcolm X only has schools named after him. However, Malcolm X still influenced our culture today that seems less obvious by how we approach the problem with the Black Lives Matter movement. People are more radical to handle the situation, as they would not stand for police brutally any longer against African