Imagine being an African American in the 1960s being free legally, but still enslaved socially. Having your skin tone hold you back from your civil rights. People around you realizing these issues as well and coming together and standing up. Fighting with people who have the same goal as you. People who want actual change, and will do anything to get it, like Malcolm X. “The Ballot or the Bullet” was given by Civil Rights Activist Malcolm X. In X’s speech he tries to remind black people of their civil rights, and the cruel reality that they do not have any in America. Throughout his discussion with the people, he gave reasons of how black people became oppressed and ways to remove themselves from oppression. He wanted them to finally fight
