When you hear Civil Rights, people often instantly think of racism, segregation, negroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The Civil Rights Movement began in the late 1900s, and some would say the prime leader was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He conducted several marches and gave many speeches protesting a peaceful yet moving fight against segregation that was occurring during that time. On the contrary, there was Malcolm X who wasn’t so much on the friendly side, he was over it, over how the whites were treating the colored and wasn't so fond of how Dr. King was going about retaliation and wasn’t really into the peaceful aspect of it. So, his thing was, if they come at us with violence, we return with violence. As I was reading a piece from one of his speeched called “Message to the Grass Roots”, Malcolm expressed that “As long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled.
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You bleed for white people, but when it comes to seeing our own churches being bombed and little black girls murdered, you haven’t got any blood…”. To show his take on all “let’s not fight back with fire but let’s peacefully fight back”, he felt that it was ok to fight just as hard as the whites came for the blacks, but Dr. King had another idea in mind and only wanted there to be peace, because to him I felt, that he felt the whole movement was senseless and could have been resolved in better terms. Dr. King in his “I have a Dream” speech emphasized the view of seeing his children playing with the white’s children and the color of their skin wouldn’t be a problem. The speech was one of his most highlighted speeches because it emphasized on his ideal vision for all his efforts to end the segregation in the country for there to be racial equality and freedom despite the country’s history of slavery and
You bleed for white people, but when it comes to seeing our own churches being bombed and little black girls murdered, you haven’t got any blood…”. To show his take on all “let’s not fight back with fire but let’s peacefully fight back”, he felt that it was ok to fight just as hard as the whites came for the blacks, but Dr. King had another idea in mind and only wanted there to be peace, because to him I felt, that he felt the whole movement was senseless and could have been resolved in better terms. Dr. King in his “I have a Dream” speech emphasized the view of seeing his children playing with the white’s children and the color of their skin wouldn’t be a problem. The speech was one of his most highlighted speeches because it emphasized on his ideal vision for all his efforts to end the segregation in the country for there to be racial equality and freedom despite the country’s history of slavery and