period served as a means to inspire and assemble a specific group of people‚ for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X it was the black community that needed to rise up in hopes of achieving equal rights and voting rights for the blacks. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were two of the most prominent leaders and orators at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. Although both leaders possessed the same objectives‚ their outlooks and perspectives differed immensely. The main primary difference
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The Infamous Detroit Red and the Ever-changing Malcolm X In a time full of zoot suits and whiskey bars‚ it was only natural that a youth would get caught up with the current trends. For Malcolm Little‚ life was all about his "image‚" or what he wanted people to see him as. Throughout his life he spent his time identifying who he really was and what he felt in his heart to be right. Throughout certain periods‚ he allowed outside circumstances to influence the way he felt about things‚ yet
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Working Together For The Same Cause. This paper will focus on Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King jr. because they are both strong representations of two different approaches to a common goal. Perhaps their different approaches of violence and nonviolence stem from their original opinions of how capable the whites are of being good. Of the many African American leaders and authors of the sixties‚ they shared similar feelings towards the white run American society in which they lived. They all
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The story basically shows that Malcolm X was somebody that was able to become by himself a “somebody”. He became that “someone” after fighting street problems and after losing his freedom to jail. He was upset with himself because he didn’t even knew how to write and also because he lacked some of the very basic literacy abilities. That fired upon him the eagerness to learn and make out of himself somebody important. An inmate called “Bimbi” was his initial motivator or “engine” that initiated those
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Jr. and Malcolm X were the stars‚ so to speak‚ of Civil Rights protesting. They are the most famous‚ and are still heard of frequently throughout History text books and magazine articles. Though they died a while back‚ their legacy still lives on‚ to live in a world free of segregation‚ but they each had different ways of “getting what they want”‚ and some ways of getting what they want led to the bad memories that people rather not speak about. Although Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X seem to
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told by Alex Haley is one of the bestselling publications in American history. Writing about a controversial public figure and topic can put a writer’s life and the publisher’s business at risk but spreading awareness on the struggles of black Americans was of great importance then. In addition to the accounts written by Alex Haley‚ the foreword by Attallah Shabazz and eulogy by Ossie Davis at the end part provides readers more interesting facts about the colorful
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other traits are those which you develop overtime due to various incidents in life. These are the learned traits and these can be eliminated with effort. With this in mind‚ we can now form justifications to the similarities and differences between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King; in the way they approach the problem‚ the type of person they are and reasons that justify that. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most
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Civil Rights Diary: Assassination of Malcolm X Shatari Wilburn HIS/145 April 6‚ 2015 Justin Horton February 21‚ 1965 Today we have lost a legacy. Malcolm X was one of the greatest influential African Americans the world has ever known. On February 21‚ 1965‚ Malcolm X was assassinated after delivering a speech to the Organisation (the spelling used by the group) of African-American Unity at Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom in New York City at the age of 39 at 3:10 p.m. While in the midst of giving his
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During the 1960’s Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. and Malcolm X represented two sides of the Civil Rights Movement. Speaking to all of humanity‚ Dr. King made these famous peaceful words‚ “I have a dream‚ a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal” (King‚ 1963‚ para 10). Malcolm X spoke of a violent revolution by claiming‚ “If it’s necessary to form a Black Nationalist army‚ we’ll
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example‚ Malcolm X and all his triumphs for humans’ rights that opened doors to African American’s. Consequently‚ this why the younger generation is unaware of his achievements. Specifically‚ because throughout school‚ we are not taught about Malcolm X we are only taught about Martin Luther King Jr. and how he changed civil rights movements‚ but in my opinion‚ Malcolm X impact on human rights made a bigger change for African Americans and their freedom. Malcolm X made an exceptional leader because
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