Have you ever wondered what times were like back then? In this paper I’ll be comparing Julius Caesar to Malcolm X. I will be telling you about their life’s comparing one to the other. My source of information came from www.wikipedia.org. Julius Caesar was born, July 13, 100 BC, Rome, Italy When Caesar was only 20 he was captured by pirates and try to sell him off 20 talons of silver but Caesar laughed and demanded that they ask for a respectable 50 talons instead. The pirates were charmed by Caesar response an how he carried himself so they kept him for entertainment he would write poetry, sing songs and read his speeches. They would laugh an tell Caesar that his speeches were horrible; he would respond saying “when I get free I would come …show more content…
His father Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist church minister who had a target on his back. After his father’s death and his mother being institutionalized him and his eight siblings went into foster care; after dropping out of high school he moved all around picking up new things. He had become a pimp, started gambling and robbery. January 12, 1946, Malcolm was arrested for burglary for a stolen watch he had taken to get repaired. After being in prison he started reading everything he could and was inspired by his brothers’ conversion to Islam. Malcolm read the teaching of Elijah Muhammad A Nation Of Islam Malcolm dropped his slave name little an choose X to represent his lost tribal name. At the time when he was given parole in 1952, he had already committed his self to the nation of Islam. He was a very charismatic person an powerful speaker who conveyed Elijah Muhammad teachings to the masses and was appointed national spokesmen. During that period membership was around 500 but skyrocketed to 30,000. He preached a lot about black superiority, unlike Martin Luther King Jr who wanted to have a peaceful protest on the other hand Malcolm acknowledge that we should use force if necessary to protect themselves. His faith was challenged when he found out that Elijah Muhammad had seduced several women while in Islam four of them having his children. In 1964 Malcolm renounced Elijah an left the nation of Islam. He founded a