Ideologies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X The Civil Rights Movement 1950s and1960s consisted of the efforts made by Civil rights activist to end racial segregation and discrimination. Even though basic civil rights for African America where granted through the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the United States Constitution (Franklin, 535-536). However, Jim Crow laws and institutionalized racism continued to oppress African Americans decades later and considered them second class citizen. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are probably the most prominent African American civil rights leaders of the 20th century.
. Martin Luther King Jr.'s type of activism proposed the necessity for racial equality and was fighting against segregation and discrimination throughout his life. Malcolm X's type of activism was against Martin Luther King Jr.'s proposal for racial equality and Malcolm believed that the black's should be separated from the whites. He supported segregation and he believed that the white's were an inferior race.
MLK vs. Malcolm X In the 1960’s there was racism around every corner in America. The Civil Rights movement took place during the 1960’s, Two key figures in the movement were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Two significant speeches given by Dr.King and Malcolm X that show their beliefs are Dr.King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech and Malcolm X’s ‘Response to Nonviolent Revolution’. In Malcolm X’s speech he makes a good argument for his claim that they have to be violent for a revolution, but Dr.King has a better argument for the claim that they should remain nonviolent. Two things that makes Dr.King’s argument better is his strong use of rhetorical devices and appeals.
Both Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were civil rights leaders in the 1960s. Both needed to enhance the status of black individuals in the United States. Outside of that, there was very little similarities of the two, particularly before Malcolm X went to Mecca late in his life. The significant contrast between the two was their state of minds towards whites, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was a civil rights leader who took after the rationality progress through nonviolence, in view of his belief and procedures. King advanced opposing racial segregation through such activities as lunch-counter sit-ins, bus boycotts, and peaceful marches and protests.
Tyler Solomon Professor Teague HIST1152 April 7, 2024 Civil Rights Paper During the twentieth century, the United States was a battleground for African Americans as they fought for civil rights while defining their different visions of freedom and liberation. These debates were not only verbal confrontations but were also shown through texts and speeches that offered competing visions of freedom. For example, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and his "Where Do We Go From Here" speech outlined a philosophy of nonviolent resistance and a call for economic and social equality.
Both Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X used their speeches to advocate the rights of black people. Martin luther king Jr used a peaceful way to advocate for black rights without using violence, while Malcolm X believed that black people should stand up and fight back. Both civil right activist had two different ideas to approach the situation. The famous speech “I have a dream” by Martin Luther King Jr was more effective than the speech of Malcolm X in Los Angeles, due to a number of reasons, Martin Luther King Jr used assonance and Alliteration to make his speech sound poetic and Martin Luther King Jr. was very calm when he said the speech and that made his speech sound very hopeful.
Two Civil Rights leaders who had the same dream, and a goal they wanted to achieve making equality possible in America. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both strong leaders, but had different views, religious outlooks, background, and were both assassinated in their prime. Martin Luther King Jr. grew up in Atlanta Georgia raised by his reverend mother Alberta Williams King, and his reverend father Martin Luther King Sr. The King family lived in a middle-class black section of the largest city in the south of Atlanta Georgia surrounded by lawyers, doctors, teachers, and black business owners. Martin Luther King Jr. was well educated he graduated Booker T. Washington high school at the age of 15 years old and attended college at Morehouse college.
Travis Rolle Humanities 2250 April 11, 2015 Malcom X Vs. Martin Luther king Malcolm X was one of the greatest human rights activist of his time, he was a leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam through 1950 and 1960. Due to his great efforts, Malcolm X encouraged black people to take off the shackles of racism that were set before them "by any means necessary," even if it meant violence. “"You don't have a peaceful revolution," he said.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X both had a great impact and influence on the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s. They both had their own thoughts and ideologies on how to better serve the black community. They each had different stand points though. Martin Luther King Jr., in the public eye, is credited as the “Father of the Civil Rights Movement.” It appears that more people have chosen to side with Martin Luther King more than Malcolm X. Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., we have two huge advocates of the Civil Rights movement, but each had their separate ways of approaching the situation.
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were two influential men who served as important figures for the Civil Rights Movement. The two men came from diverse backgrounds and had contrasting views in life about religion and African American’s stance in society. Malcolm X was born in Nebraska and had great amounts of exposure to racism. Martin Luther King was born in an educated family in Atlanta, where he experienced racism, but to a lower extreme than Malcolm X. Although they passed away long time ago, they continue to live on today in a world independent of segregation. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X used opposing principles to achieve equality for blacks; King utilized integration of both races and nonviolence as opposed to Malcolm X who separated the same races and employed non violence so as to achieve the same goal.
Malcolm X didn’t agree with what King’s views, he believed that MLK’s dream was not a dream but a nightmare. Martin Luther King Jr’s approach to civil rights and equality was non-violent protesting, sit-ins, and getting as much people together as possible while not using violence. However, Malcolm X’s approach to this was almost the opposite. He was against the views of whites and he was willing to do whatever was needed to achieve
The 1960s served as a hotbed for tension between whites and African-Americans in the United States. Police brutality, segregation, intimidation, and other forms of social injustice was all too common. Martin Luther King is perhaps the most famous civil rights activist while Malcolm X was not quite as popular as King. MLK believed in the integration of races to make a common brotherhood. King is quoted as saying “...With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together…”
and Malcolm X both wanted change, but the two men took different paths to attain their goal. King organized peaceful demonstrations, and he urged his followers to be non-violent (Woon-Kwong, 2015). The path Malcolm X chose was a violent one. He encouraged the African American people to meet violence with violence and to take what was rightfully theirs. Where King encouraged racial harmony, Malcolm X encouraged his followers to protest against the whites.
The civil rights movement of the 1960s was a long-due struggle by African Americans to gain rights equal to those of whites. They wanted fair treatment, equal employment opportunity, the right to vote, and other rights that white Americans got to enjoy under the U.S. Constitution that declared equality for all. (Unless you’re black). Activist leaders had two approaches to this: complete nonviolence, or equality by any means necessary. Two civil rights leaders of the time who epitomize these philosophies are Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
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.
