biographical film “Malcolm X‚” my understanding of Malcolm X was very little and my being taught of him even less. I grew up in a very small town in East Texas‚ a very rural area that was not surprisingly dominantly white. In school‚ I was taught very little about the Civil Rights movement and all the teachings was focused on Martin Luther King Jr. Sadly‚ I had no previous idea or understanding of Malcolm X to even compare to the film. I understood the film to present Malcolm X to be an American hero
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In the history of the American civil rights movement‚ two seminal figures emerge: that of the peaceful and nonviolent Martin Luther King‚ Jr‚ and the revolutionary and radical Malcolm X. From these two contrasting images‚ America did not know how exactly to classify the movement. On one hand‚ Malcolm X preached independence and a "by any means necessary" approach to achieving equality in The United States and on the other‚ King preached a nonviolent‚ disobedient philosophy similar to that of Gandhi
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which there was some black kids who went to an all white school. In 1963‚ the march on Washington occurred. In 1964‚ the civil rights act was signed and Mississippi civil rights workers were killed by the kkk. During 1965‚ Bloody Sunday occurred‚ Malcolm x was assassinated‚ and voting rights for black men was okayed. The first
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of Islam No. 2‚ Mosque Maryam‚ as the new headquarters of the religion. There he began to spread his controversial yet empowering word of the NOI to other African American men and women slowly but steadily attracting new members. In 1948‚ Malcolm X‚ born Malcolm Little‚ became interested in the Muslim ideology and from prison began a correspondence with Muhammad. In 1952‚ he visited Elijah Muhammad in Chicago‚ and soon afterward he converted to Islam. Over the next decade‚ Elijah Muhammad built the
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those (Martin Luther King Jr‚ Malcom X‚ Nelson Mandela‚ Steve Biko) who strived for a world without white oppression‚ although the philosophies they embraced differed. An example of this is through the comparison of MLK and Malcom X through the readings of James M Washington’s‚ A Testament of Hope and Malcom X’s "The Black Revolution". Initially‚ there a common threads throughout the readings that unite them‚ namely a combined religiosity with political leadership that morphed into a demand for social
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1950’s and 1960’s. I am a self-professed scholar of African American history and I found an amazing amount of information that I was not aware of. Like most who claim to be Black History experts‚ I was aware of the roles of Martin Luther King‚ Malcolm X‚ Rosa Parks‚ W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. However‚ I was not aware of the impact that so many lesser known figures had in the civil rights movement. It was refreshing to learn of the roles played by Harold Cruse‚ Arturo Schomburg‚ Richard Wright
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The Civil Rights Movement in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s Research Task – Report Blake Walker Year 11 Modern History Malcolm X Investigate the life and background of the individual/group Malcolm X was born on the 19th May‚ 1925 in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ by the name of Malcolm Little. Malcolm was one of eight children to Louise Norton Little who was an attentive busy housewife. His father‚ Earl Little who was an abrupt Baptist Minister and was also a strong supporter of Marcus Garvey‚ leader of the
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Tiffany Brock Homemade Education Malcolm X was a moving motivational speaker. He was able to speak and have the whole world listen. The way he dictates his words within his speech‚ would make you think he was very educated and probably had a college degree. The truth is Malcolm X only finished school through the eighth grade. In his book “Prison Studies”‚ Malcolm X confesses that most of his education was retrieved while serving in prison. I believe that his “homemade education”‚ laid the pavement
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well as Malcolm X who reflected the ideas of Marcus Garvey decades later. All of these campaigners supported each other in a sense‚ seeing as they all aimed for equality and success in the economic and social aspects of these times. After the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955‚ blacks throughout the city joined together to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against segregation and the laws that Rosa Parks had violated under Jim Crow. In 1957‚ King formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to
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voting and black nationalism for African Americans through these two methods that’s how the black community will promote change. The historical discourse was delivered in 1964 to the Cory Methodist Church by human rights activist‚ minister‚ and icon Malcolm X. The speech demonstrates the power of discourse more importantly serves as the perfect example of a rhetorical situation. The civil rights movement was a pivotal time for African Americans and discourse was often used to address the issues the black
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