The Letters From Birmingham Jail 'And The Negro Is Your Brother'

Should the color of your skin or even your ethnicity define you? In today’s society the sensible human beings would answer ‘”no”, but we are still fighting for equality for all genders, ethnicities, and races. Fifty years ago it sparked movements and civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is actively refusing to commit to the unlawful laws, commands, or demands of the government, or the occupying power. Civil disobedience acts without the use of physical violence. “The Letters from Birmingham Jail” and “The Negro is Your Brother” by Martin Luther King, Jr was an open letter. It ultimately backs up the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It stated that blacks had the moral duty to break up these Jim Crow laws. Such laws at state and
King followed the theory that change could happen without the use of violence. King showed ideas and methods from Mahatma Gandhi. King’s idea of resisting the racial profiling were to organize lunch-counter sit-ins, peaceful marches, and bus boycotts. His main goal was to show people around the world how violent oppressors were morally incorrect in the way they were acting. Dr. King overall delivered his philosophy and how you cannot fight racial injustice with violence, because it leads to give the oppressors something to rally against. With his ideas and philosophies a civil rights bus group emerged. That famous group were the Freedom
While being sent to prison Malcolm joined forces with the Nation of Islam, and began to known as Minister Malcolm. The fiery spokesman finally changed his name to El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. While most people contrasted Malcolm with Martin Luther King because of how he approached the issue. Malcolm saw how the boycotts and peaceful marches were not changing, so he wanted the black community to stand up and fight back. Malcolm preached about nationalism and self-defense, and overall this terrified the whites. He wanted blacks to have a separate land of their own away from the whites. With the blacks fighting back for the equality they righteously deserved what would become of the whites? He came to inspire the black community on not being afraid to fight. People started to take a stand. It even amounted to the created of the Black Panthers, which will later be known as the most significant activist group during the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers also took the assertive stand. They also agreed with Malcolm about how the peaceful acts were not working. They also said these boycotts and sit-ins would take too long acquiring change. They knew what they wanted and were determined to make it known. The Black Panther’s armed its members so they could monitor police and