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The Similarities Between Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X

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The differences and similarities between Martin Luther King Jr's speech and Malcolm X's speech are what brought their powers together and what they had done to help the black community. The first piece of evidence that I have of their similarities is where it says in MLK Jr's speech that he wants to have peace and not to cause any more problems than there already. Therefore they have the same inconsequential ending to the problem that would help all of the black community. Although Malcolm has the same goal as MLK, that doesn't mean that they solve the problem the same way. The goal of peace and to have rights happens to be the same as Malcolm X's. His goal is to have more money in their neighborhood and to have peace. He wants black people …show more content…

Instead, he wants the black community to start businesses so that the money they gather can go into their neighborhoods and help several other black families. The third piece of evidence is that Malcolm wants everyone to own and operate their businesses in the black community. Martin looks at it in a different way than Malcolm, so instead, he uses picketing and boycotting along with nonviolent protests. The white community might try to stop them all but they just keep doing gestures of strength and protests. Martin and Malcolm both use different tactics but they were all very helpful. The fourth piece of evidence that I have is where it says in Malcolm X's speech that the black community needs to start businesses so other communities don't get the opportunity or the job. This is different from Martin's because he chooses to picket and boycott instead of using Malcolm's idea to start businesses and gather money in their neighborhood. Malcolm also said that they needed to improve spending money in their

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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.

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After all, if you were to see your community in such disarray, hardly able to provide for itself, you would want to get it to near the same standing as the other communities, the communities that are borderline thriving, right? With that in mind here is what Martin Luther King Jr had to say about the problem of economical struggles: "Operation Breadbasket have increased the income of the Negro community by more than two million dollars annually...". Whereas Malcolm X mentioned in his speech, "(W)e have to learn how to own and operate the businesses of our community and develop them into some type of industry that will enable us to create employment for the people of our community" So despite their different visions, they both suck out the same core goal:

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Malcolm believes that black people should be able to open businesses in their neighborhoods. He explains that if black people are able to open businesses, then it would mean more jobs for black people. This would mean that black people will not have to rely on white people for jobs. He insists that black people should be able to control their own economic wealth and should not be manipulated by white people. Malcolm also talks about how white politicians only come around when it is election time and that they often manipulate black citizens for their votes.

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should have acted differently to work with Malcolm X, and possibly change the time period the Civil Rights Act was established. Martin had all the right words to say to keep whites and government officials from being completely against everything he had to say. Although, Martin did not have enough action steps to establish equal rights, Malcolm X certainly does. Consequently, it is likely that Malcolm X was an example of how to protest in an effective way. If Martin Luther King Jr. was more demanding and forceful like Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Act could have been established years before it was.

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