Comparing Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcom X

Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X were both impactful leaders during the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a movement for African Americans to get more rights than they previously had. Some people like Malcom x wanted colored people to have more rights than white people and Malcom X along with his followers wanted to takes these rights by force. On the other hand, there were people like Martin Luther King Jr. whose goal was it to take these rights that they deserved by peaceful protesting and they believed that all races should be treated with equality. As there are multiple differences in these two leaders there are more similarities.
First off, both leaders are preachers with a big following they both took the footsteps of their fathers who were also preachers. They were both very famous and well known for their speeches with Martin Luther King Jr’s, I have a dream and Malcom X’s the ballot or the bullet. While Malcom X’s speech was more threatening than Martin Luther King’s saying and Martin Luther King saying that we should come together and the white kids and the black kids should hold hands and play together. They both used very well put logos like into their speeches like in Martin Luther …show more content…
They both had father who preached, they also had siblings. The difference between the two were Malcom X had a rougher childhood than Martin Luther King but they both faced racism even though Martin Luther King was born in the north. When they got older they, both got married but would later have an affair with them causing the government to use this information to tarnish their name. they both had different lives but they both wanted the same thing and worked hard to get this. Even though they had different ideas they thought the same because later before Malcom X he realized that Martin Luther King’s work was