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To demonstrate, “Malcolm X delivered "The Ballot or the Bullet" to a predominantly African-American meeting in… the Congress of Racial Equality …which was shifting from nonviolent protest to Malcolm X-like black nationalism. Helping provoke this shift were speeches like this one, which was received enthusiastically” (Miller). Many African Americans came to Malcolm’s speech because they really wanted to know what he meant by the “ballot” and “bullet”. By the end of his speech, Malcolm wanted that many African Americans would stand up for their right to vote; indeed many of them did by giving nonviolent protests. On April 3, 1964, Malcolm X went to Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, to give his speech to a crowd of three thousand people, which many attended were white” (McNeil). Since whites also came to Malcolm’s speech, they really wanted to know what he had to say about Black Nationalism. However he actually scared many of his white audience. He makes them fear the black society. The whites needed to know that the African Americans were not going to undergo all this unfairness. Many of the whites responded with despair in their eyes as a result of Malcolm’s use of intense words such as “Hunkies,” and “Polacks,” and “blue-eyed thing” to let whites know that the African Americans were not going to
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The significance of the Civil Rights Movement of that time was to gain the equality for all the African Americans that are rightful of it, and in order to achieve their freedom they will have to fight for it. The Civil Rights Movement was successful. Equality was a long term goal which was eventually achieved. While some people, of any race, still cling to racism the majority are not racist or hateful. The African Americans got the right to vote and they had all the rights that other whites have. Today you see more racially mixed families and people of various races getting into public and governmental offices that have never been filled by racially diverse people. The fact that Obama is president is proof that the movement was successful. There is equality now for all
The significance of the Civil Rights Movement of that time was to gain the equality for all the African Americans that are rightful of it, and in order to achieve their freedom they will have to fight for it. The Civil Rights Movement was successful. Equality was a long term goal which was eventually achieved. While some people, of any race, still cling to racism the majority are not racist or hateful. The African Americans got the right to vote and they had all the rights that other whites have. Today you see more racially mixed families and people of various races getting into public and governmental offices that have never been filled by racially diverse people. The fact that Obama is president is proof that the movement was successful. There is equality now for all