Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X are still two men that remains a fix image in the American consciousness. King, an advocate of Integrationsm, with his famous “I Have a Dream Speech “delivers that African Americans should be non-violent when dealing with racial forces. Malcolm X, a Black Nationalist activist who encouraged African Americans to fight racial oppression. By any means these two men were ideologically opposites. King was a man of Intergrationsm and X was Nationalism. Did they really share any similarities about African American struggles and liberation?
According to Cone’s article, he states, “ The Integrationist line of thought goes something like this: If whites really believe their political and religious documents, then they …show more content…
Fredrick Douglass, was an outstanding integrationist during the 19th century; that is to say, Cone mentions, “No one was as persuasive as Douglass in pointing out to the whites the hypocrisy of the extolling “the principles of political freedom and of the natural justice” articulated in the Declaration of Independence.”(4). On the other hand, optimistism about African Americans receiving full citizenship rights has always been a political vision in the black community, but also was based on Christian beliefs ; Richard Allen an ex-slave and a Methodist minister moved his and his followers to an African Methodist Episcopal in 1816, because they refused to be segregated in the Lord’s house. Meanwhile, the fight for justice was transferred from churches to secular groups known as the Core, The congress of Racial Equality. Core was a pragmatic method of non-violent, staging in sit downs in restaurants to freedom rides on …show more content…
These Nationalist spirits revolted in the birth and growth in the churches, pride in African unity, and the creations of autonomous institutions. Nationalists defined their identity by being resistance to America and the determination to create their identity based on African history and Culture.
Granting that, the Civil War, Reconstruction Period, Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott Decision made the achievement of equality for African Americans impossible; Nationalist no longer wanted to be equal, but wanted to govern themselves. Henry McNeal Turner, stated, “There is no more doubt in my mind that we ultimately have to return to Africa than there is existence of God.” (9) Although Turner addressed his messaged to sociopolitical problems of the blacks in the rural south; he did not create any organizations to implement his African dream. Accordingly, this mission was operated by Marcus
According to Cone’s article, he states, “ The Integrationist line of thought goes something like this: If whites really believe their political and religious documents, then they …show more content…
Fredrick Douglass, was an outstanding integrationist during the 19th century; that is to say, Cone mentions, “No one was as persuasive as Douglass in pointing out to the whites the hypocrisy of the extolling “the principles of political freedom and of the natural justice” articulated in the Declaration of Independence.”(4). On the other hand, optimistism about African Americans receiving full citizenship rights has always been a political vision in the black community, but also was based on Christian beliefs ; Richard Allen an ex-slave and a Methodist minister moved his and his followers to an African Methodist Episcopal in 1816, because they refused to be segregated in the Lord’s house. Meanwhile, the fight for justice was transferred from churches to secular groups known as the Core, The congress of Racial Equality. Core was a pragmatic method of non-violent, staging in sit downs in restaurants to freedom rides on …show more content…
These Nationalist spirits revolted in the birth and growth in the churches, pride in African unity, and the creations of autonomous institutions. Nationalists defined their identity by being resistance to America and the determination to create their identity based on African history and Culture.
Granting that, the Civil War, Reconstruction Period, Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott Decision made the achievement of equality for African Americans impossible; Nationalist no longer wanted to be equal, but wanted to govern themselves. Henry McNeal Turner, stated, “There is no more doubt in my mind that we ultimately have to return to Africa than there is existence of God.” (9) Although Turner addressed his messaged to sociopolitical problems of the blacks in the rural south; he did not create any organizations to implement his African dream. Accordingly, this mission was operated by Marcus