Dr. Martin Luther King came to prominence as black civil rights activist. He advocated for the right of People of Color through the philosophy of “Change without violence.” When he saw that the levels of racial discrimination was rising tremendously, he delivered his renown speech, “Nonviolence: the only road to freedom” to show to the white violent oppressors that the ideal of racial injustice is illegal, corrupt as well as immoral (King, 8). Malcom X was also a civil rights activist who fought for the rights of the African American. He started his own group fighting for civil rights activism when he felt that the existing civil rights movement was making limited progress. This made him to a speech spelling out his philosophy of, “The ballot or the bullet.”
Many people admired how these two extremely charismatic activists, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, fought for the rights of the black community as well as the way that they delivered their message. Both King and Malcolm X promoted self-knowledge and respect for one's history and culture as the basis for black
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He had come to Alabama for the Easter protest which he led to the burning down of stores which was a strategy to make white leaders come to negotiate reach a settlement with the black community. While he was in the prison, he wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to a group of clergy men who said that protesting blacks should not go on demonstrating in the streets causing violence but instead should use the courts to secure civil rights. They claimed demonstrations were a lack of common sense to maintain civility and order. The following year, Joseph H. Jackson, enhanced his criticism of Martin by advising the black community to avoid direct confrontation with the whites and stick to being peaceful and