How Did Malcolm X Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

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African Americans civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s believed and promoted peaceful, non-violent approaches to gaining equal rights in the U.S activists like Martin Luther King Jr. wanted them to become integrated to American society and to be able to sit next to a Caucasian in restaurants as an equal. Malcolm X was an entirely different political leader. MLK took the peaceful approach, Malcolm X approved of using an means necessary to active black power which meant using violence. Malcolm was born with the name Malcolm Little in 1925 and his father was a Baptist minister and his mother took care of Malcolm and his siblings. Malcolm was still young and his

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