Malcolm McDowell

The civil rights movement emerged in the late 1950’s through the 1960’s. This non violent movement was a great change in the history of America through two men who had a great influence, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Both individuals had different outlooks on the idea of civil rights, but both wanted society to better serve the African American community. In Martin Luther King, Jr's “I have a Dream” speech, King gave many African Americans hope by demonstrating the real promises of…

Legendary Beard Fact: Heroic western figure Wyatt Earp was said to have killed thirty men during his lifetime. Perhaps his opponents were as intimidated by his magnificent mustache and beard combo as his skills with a gun. Wyatt Earp started life on March 19, 1848 in Warren County, Illinois, and began his trek westward before the age of two, when his father joined a group of settlers heading for California. The family only made it about 150 miles before leaving the expedition due to the…

Malcolm X was a really powerful man , one of the most powerful men in the world. But he was not really powerful physically he was more powerful verbally. Malcolm made such an impact that he and many others changed the law.He was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He used that trait to help him and the African American society to an equal life. In the southern states, where most people believed that whites had superiority over blacks. They used to believe that to…

Osama bin Laden was born March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His parents where named Mohammed bin Laden and Hamida al-Attas. Mohammad bin Laden was a millionare, and Hamida was his tenth wife. They soon divorced after Osama was born. Osama was brought up as a Sunni Muslim, with his mother and step siblings. Osama liked to read, write poetry, and also play football, but his central concentration was on religion. He went to school at Al-Thager Model school from 1968 to 1976. At King…

Malcolm X had a complicated and difficult early life. Later in his life known as Malcolm X, Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the fourth out of eight children of Earl and Louis Norton Little. Before Malcolm was born his father had 3 children from a previous marriage as well as 3 children with Malcolm's mother. When Malcolm was born, his mother was a homemaker and his father was a Baptist minister and a supporter of the Black National leader, Marcus Garvey.…

Revolutionary Suicide Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life; it is not one being forced to die. Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 the horrendous event at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster. On November 18, 1978 a total of 909 Americans died under the direction of People’s Temple leader Jim Jones. Not every member of the People’s Temple willingly gave up their lives many were shot if they were not willingly…

Born on October 7 1931 in Klerksdorp, South Africa. Desmond Mpilo Tutu is known as one of the world’s most prominent spiritual leaders. Till this day, he is still fighting to fix justice issues. Coming from a poor family background, with his father being an elementary school principal and his mother who cooked and cleaned for a school for the blind, Tutu grew up with segregation. Just like how African Americans were treated in America, Africans were denied the right to vote and moved out of…

and are worth, the Civil Rights Movement was a step into change. Wanting to improve the lives of all African- Americans in America, looking for the rights they deserved given to them by the Reconstruction Amendments, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X wanted the same thing. Searching for the same outcome but having two different strategies of getting what they wanted. The use of religion, protests, and violence were a few of the ways that both leaders conducted the civil rights movement.…

Malcolm X and Mahatma Gandhi were influential people who demanded to be created equal regardless of the circumstances and problems faced. Malcolm X and Mahatma Gandhi fought hard for the African American and Indian races, respectively, throughout their time. Both men were similar in that their situations were almost the same, but their beliefs and backgrounds made their approach to these situations significantly different. Although they shared different values, their work and protests caused a…

He started to ask these questions as he grew, and decided to look into other religions. He later discovered Islam; a religion of peace. He later learned that Cassius Clay was a slave name and changed his name to Muhammad Ali, a name given by Malcolm X. Malcolm X was a activist for African Americans and people of the Islam religion. (“Ego,” 2004). This made people start talking, people kept on asking him for interviews. He always talked about how he grew up asking questions about his faith, and…