The Civil Rights Movement began shortly after the end of World War II. The United States took their largest stride with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Brown vs. the Board of Education case. This decision deemed separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This decision sparked a revolution that would change America forever. Once the movement began there was stopping it, and Martin Luther King Jr. realized this. He preached a change that the African Americans have would force only through nonviolence. Martin Luther King’s philosophy made more sense for America in the 1960s because it pushed America forward, it stopped bloodshed through nonviolence, and it helped make everyone more equal and together by showing them the errors of their ways.
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and Malcolm X seemed to have a respect among one another, though their philosophies were quite different from each other. Malcolm X made it clear that he believed that the African Americans and the White people should remain separate but should be considered equal to each other. He told white people “work in conjunction with us-each of us working among our own kind.” Martin Luther King Jr., on the other hand, preached equality and desegregation. He wanted White people and African Americans to work together. Like he said in his famous speech, “we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”. By the 1960’s, African Americans were enrolled in white schools. Martin Luther King’s philosophy was perfect at the time because it was moving America forward more into
and Malcolm X seemed to have a respect among one another, though their philosophies were quite different from each other. Malcolm X made it clear that he believed that the African Americans and the White people should remain separate but should be considered equal to each other. He told white people “work in conjunction with us-each of us working among our own kind.” Martin Luther King Jr., on the other hand, preached equality and desegregation. He wanted White people and African Americans to work together. Like he said in his famous speech, “we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”. By the 1960’s, African Americans were enrolled in white schools. Martin Luther King’s philosophy was perfect at the time because it was moving America forward more into