Compare And Contrast Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were and still are respected and appreciated leaders of the African American community in the United States. Both African American greats came from different backgrounds, one from a Christian family and the other one from Muslim family. However, they faced the same struggle that African Americans were going through since the day they were born. Even though King and X had the same vision of fighting against the struggle, they had different tactics of attacking it. Their goal was to end the exploitation, discrimination and racism that African Americans were living through.
Martin Luther King Jr. followed his father’s footstep and teachings of how to create change of the hardship that his race was going through.