Although president Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation in 1862 that gave an end for slavery, white people persisted in oppressing and segregating black people. Life was segregated between blacks and whites: Black people had separate schools, restaurants, theaters, and even transportations. As the oppression increased, some black people started to refuse such harassment. Thus, many movements and marches were launched to bring equality for blacks (Patterson).
Many black leaders, like Dr. Martin Luther King and John Lewis, fought for Blacks’ rights by leading demonstrations and marches. Lewis wrote a graphic and biographical novel that presents his significant participations in the civil rights movement. He is one of the most effective leaders in the Blacks’ history.
Besides Dr. King, Lewis chose the nonviolent path to defend Blacks rights; he was a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
However, not all black leaders had the
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In contrast, Dr. King believed in the change through nonviolent methods, influenced by Gandhi. He also showed his readiness to work with whites toward social justice. However, X and Dr. King, with their two different ideologies, wanted to attain the same goal, Afro-Americans’ freedom (Malcolm X).
By 1963, Malcolm discovered that Elijah Muhammed had deviated his teaching by having children out of marriage. Along with Muhammed’s anger on his remark on the assassination of president Kennedy, Malcolm left the Nation of Islam in 1964 (Biography).
In the same year X left the Nation of Islam, he went on a personal and spiritual journey to Africa and the Middle East, where did the pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. In that journey, X corrected his view of Islam and the whole world; he left the idea that all whites are devils and believed in the idea that blacks and whites can peacefully live together
Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. both helped the Civil rights movement through their actions. Anthony was amazing with getting women their right to vote; as was King with being active in helping desegregate African-American communities. A list of quotes found on Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes shows this particular thing MLK Jr. has said… “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”(Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)....
Martin Luther King Jr. played a huge role for the black power movement, and many other younger black activists’ leader such as handsome Stokely Carmichael, Malcom X, and Rosa Park. Martin and Rosa and many others being a symbol of the non-violent struggle against segregation were he launched voting rights campaign and peaceful protesting. Rosa Park is one of the most important female that contribute a little but a huge factor of the Black Power Movement. One day riding the bus coming from work, a white bus driver told her and other African American to move to the back to give up their seats. Rosa being fed up with it she refuse, causing here to be put in jail, causing a huge movement for a bus boycott and Freedom Riders. Unlike Malcolm X and who epitomized the “Black Power” philosophy and had grown frustrated with the non-violent, integrated struggle for civil rights and worried that blacks would lose control of their own movement. Malcom X joined the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther. Black Panther played a short but important part in the civil rights movement. Being from California, the Black Panther party had four desires: equality in education, housing, employment and civil rights. In other words they were willing to use violence to get what they wanted. Bobby Seale, one of the leader had vision Black Panther party. Seale
Malcolm set everything in motion when he converted to the Nation of Islam, an African American movement that combined elements of Islam with Black Nationalism. While in prison, his siblings persuaded him to write to the Nation’s leader, Elijah Muhammad. X was uneasy at first, but came around shortly. Malcolm wrote Muhammad a one-page letter each day in curiosity about the Nation of Islam. Muhammad replied as the “Messenger of Allah” welcoming Malcolm into the “true knowledge” (Haley 195). Before X’s release in nineteen fifty-two, he went under an intense self-educated program by reading books in the prison library, and even memorizing an entire dictionary. He also sharpened his forensic skills by participating in debate classes. When Malcolm was released from prison he had his first official visit with Muhammad in Chicago, he devoted his life to the Muslim ministry. Soon Malcolm began traveling and preaching with other ministers. He picked up their techniques and devoured their knowledge. Malcolm quickly rose in the Nation of Islam ranks becoming minister of Temple number eleven in Boston and Muhammad’s most effective recruiter and spokesman. Soon after, X was rewarded minister of Temple number seven in Harlem, New York, the largest and most prestigious after the Chicago Headquarters and eventually named the National Representative of the Nation of Islam, second in rank behind Muhammad himself. Under X’s lieutenancy the nation claimed a membership of five-hundred thousand, as the numbers grew X’s teachings began to change; he wanted to make a vast difference. He spread the glorious history of African Americans. He urged the Nation to become more active in the civil rights protest instead of being a critic on the side. X articulated the Nation’s racial doctrines of evil
A year after he returned, Malcolm X was shot repeatedly in the chest while giving a speech in front of two hundred people, including his wife and four children. His life was characterized by a number of extreme changes that transformed his views and what he stood for. When he moved to Boston he found himself at the bottom of the American society, when he went jail he found himself again and gained self-pride, but when he came back form Mecca, as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, his views totally changed, he was on the top of the American society and there he will remain as one of the most influential advocates of Black pride.
Malcolm X was particularly firm in his opinions of the nonviolent strategies advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr. During a November 1963 address, Malcolm ridiculed the theory that African Americans could achieve their freedom nonviolently. "The only revolution in which the goa...
Inspired by his Faith in God, Dr. King led a nonviolent committee in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. While others were demanding for freedom by any means necessary, including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used his words and acts to accomplish nonaggressive resistance,
It seems that until his joining the Nation of Islam, he was unchurched, nonreligious, or fully atheist. In prison, he was hostile towards religion, landing him the nickname of “Satan”. He was receptive to the Nation of Islam when his brother introduced him to it. I found this strange and figured he had only been receptive due to other teachings of the NOI, such as the belief that white people are devils and by nature evil. However, one month after his break from the NOI, in April of 1964, Malcolm X made the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, that all Muslims are required to make at least once in their lives.
Up until 1947, the British ruled in India and oppressed Indian citizens. Up until 1964, there was segregation in the United States. Eventually, two brave men stood up and fought for justice and equality. Gandhi lead the movement in India and Dr. Martin Luther King Junior lead the movement in America. Gandhi and Dr. King both employed nonviolent civil disobedience tactics and fought for a cause (to end oppression). However, the two differed greatly in that Gandhi held some “inhumane” ideals that deeply opposed Dr. King’s ideals. Though both men fought for the equality and rights of others, Dr. King had a better philosophy because he fought for a cause and for people whereas Gandhi only fought for a cause.
Malcolm left the Nation of Islam but all ties were not broken. The Nation did not agree with Malcolm’s decision and they despised his for it. There have been many reports regarding the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X. There have even been reports of bomb threats from the Nation to Malcolm.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy was much more effective than Malcolm X’s because of his idea of harmony between both race, the idea of peace, and nonviolent ways. By talking about doing things together, King Jr. promotes the idea of unity and equality which was the U.S.’s principles. With peace and love, it made the white community look even more barbaric since they were treating the A. Americans like trash. By having nonviolent ways, King Jr. and the thousands of protesters were able to get their message through without starting even more negative drama between them and the white people, and that pushed the government to finally give them the rights they fully deserve. But the battle for equality still has yet to end since the A. American community is still being targeted against unfortunately by police officers who are unjustly killing innocent African Americans. This is the reason why the Black Lives Matter has risen because of the inequality between white and blacks that still exists because of different cases when a black man and a white man would commit the same exact crime, only the black man would get punished harshly. What adds salt to the wound is the unequal treatment that African Americans receive, in just one year 222 African Americans were murdered by police officers, and many of those African Americans were clearly innocent. The works of Malcolm X and Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. made a huge impact in society, especially the African
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. African Americans are fortunate to have leaders who have fought for a difference in Black America. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are two powerful men in particular who brought hope to blacks in the United States. Both preached the same message about Blacks having power and strength in the midst of all the hatred that surrounded them. Even though they shared the same dream of equality for their people, the tactics they implied to make these dreams a reality were very different. The background, environment and philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were largely responsible for the distinctly varying responses to American racism.
In the mid 1900's, America was finally now an independent country, but had many flaws within their undeveloped system. Racism and segregation towards African Americans was at an all time high in the Southern states. With the Jim Crow laws in place, the privileges that white Americans had were overwhelmingly more than African Americans had ("Civil Rights Movement," para. 1). During this period of injustice in our country's history, there were many activists of equal rights, both black and white. While there were many people who helped the cause, one of the most influential civil rights activists was John Lewis.
King and Malcolm X both fought against racial inequality, Dr. King was more persuasive in his
John Lewis was an influential SNCC leader and is recognized by most as one of the important leaders of the civil rights movement as a whole. In 1961, Lewis joined SNCC in the Freedom Rides. Riders traveled the South challenging segregation at interstate bus terminals. In 1963, when Chuck McDew stepped down as SNCC chairman, Lewis was quickly elected to take over. Lewis' experience at that point was already widely respected--he had been arrested 24 times as a result of his activism. In 1963, Lewis helped plan and took part in the March on Washington. At the age of 23, he was a keynote speaker at the historic event. He stepped down from his position in 1966. Stokeley Carmichael, a fellow Freedom Rider, was elected chairman of SNCC and soon after raised the cry of "black power." Some were alarmed by the concept of black power and many were critical of Carmichael's new approach.
In history we know that no two men are alike but, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were phenomenal people and leaders. Both had visualized some type of change in the future, yet were not literally able to see it. Both Dr. King and Malcolm X set out to bring a sense of confidence to blacks all over the United States. Their main purpose was to help instill black’s power and strength so that they could overcome racial disparity and prejudice that surrounded them, but both of them had very unique and distinct different ways of promoting their message. Martin was more geared and focused on equality and wellness of the world as a whole, a Malcolm X’s personal interpretation of the world was very well blinded by anger, bitterness, and the desire to get revenge at the expense of the world that he thought treated him unfairly.