Similarities Between Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X

In both Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X's Civil Rights speeches, there were critical points hit in both of these speeches about African American employment. These two speeches are very important when talking about African American employment because both of them developed two very effective, but different methods for obtaining civil rights and employment for African Americans. With these two speeches MLK and Malcolm X were planning to make it fair for African Americans to get the same employment amount as everyone else. These two leaders had the same goals for these speeches, but very different reasoning and methods for obtaining those goals. Both Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X had the same target in their sights for these speeches,

Not only did they use different tactics one of them wanted a more beneficial impact for the African American community and employment crisis. Malcolm X shows that he wanted to have a different approach and impact on the problem when he stated, "That will enable us to create employment for the people of our community so they don't have to be constantly be involved with boycotting and picketing...." unlike MLK, Malcolm X didn't want to be a part of boycotting and picketing businesses instead he wanted African Americans to own businesses because they could obtain more money and hire more African Americans at their desirable amount. Martin Luther King, Jr's tactic for obtaining his goal was to boycott businesses and companies to influence white business owner to hire more African Americans shown by MLK stating, "Along with the march as a weapon for change in our nonviolent arsenal must be listed the boycott." by this statement MLK means the weapon that changes society is the boycott (which is the refusal of buying goods from a business, company, store, or etc.) compared to Malcolm X's tactic for obtaining his goals MLK had a whole new approach to the problem which they