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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X shared the idea that everyone should be treated equal regardless of color. Their passion for civil rights and what they achieved makes them world figures. While they both fought for what they believed, the approach they used was completely different. Martin Luther King came from a long family line of pastors. He grew up in Atlanta with a good family and he was very well educated. According to Nobelprize.org, by 1955 Martin Luther King had received his…

Research Question: What motivated Malcolm X’s acceptance of true Islam and how did this change his beliefs about the American civil rights movement? The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley Value This document is co-written by Malcolm X making it a primary source. It is also written by Alex Haley, an African American journalist who ghostwrote Malcolm’s autobiography based on more than 50 in depth interviews with Malcolm. The purpose of this document is to detail Malcolm’s…

Turner and Malcolm X expressed or demonstrated a willingness to take violent action in the cause of liberation or justice for African-Americans. Both of their writings tilted Malcolm X and The Confessions of Nat Turner, are writings that explain their views and purposes of the lives they were living. Upon their writings they both had co-authors for example, in The Confessions of Nat Turner, it was written by Nat Turner and Thomas R. Gray. For Malcolm X, it was written by Malcolm X and Alex…

Malcolm X is certainly one of the most controversial figures to be engaged in any movement for Civil rights. In large part, the discord and confusion about what he advocated can be attributed to the fact that he was a contemporary of Martin Luther King. In the study of the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King tends to overshadow any other Civil Rights leaders during the time and his teaching non-violent resistance and civil disobedience is considered the gold standard for what social…

Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X were both impactful leaders during the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a movement for African Americans to get more rights than they previously had. Some people like Malcom x wanted colored people to have more rights than white people and Malcom X along with his followers wanted to takes these rights by force. On the other hand, there were people like Martin Luther King Jr. whose goal was it to take these rights that they deserved by…

Motivation for Self-Education The essays “Coming to the Awareness of Language” by Malcolm X and “The Library Card” by Richard Wright are about how two men tried to educate themselves by reading books. Malcolm X was a man in the 1940-1950 who spent his time in jail rewriting the pages of the dictionary to better himself as both a reader and writer. He wanted to better his education and be able to write letters to Elijah Muhammad without sounding uneducated. He was reading about African American…

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were the two important icons during the Civil Right movements. They probably are the two best known African-American leaders of the last century and are still being mentioned frequently in modern text books and many other news articles. Since their deaths in the 1960s no one has replaced them. They became famous about the same time. They are known as the two greatest men that are alike. They both have the same goal but their methods of accomplishing it are…

racism. Morrison demonstrates this rift between them by comparing Milkman to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Guitar to Malcolm X. Milkman and Guitar once shared similar interests, but as they age, all they have in common is their love for each other. While in school, they often skipped class to hang out together, and later discovered their appreciation for partying, drinking,…

Malcolm was released from jail, he joined the Nation of Islam to learn more about his religion, and changed his last name from Little to the initial X. As a member of The Nation of Islam, Malcolm X met the man who fascinated him to peruse in the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad. He was the leader of the nation and saw a bright future in Malcolm. Malcolm X helped organized and funded multiple temples for his nation in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. His rank in the nation slowly grew as…

Malcolm X: The One Who Started From the Bottom In The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley, Malcolm’s life went downfall after his father was brutally murdered. Malcolm was sent to reform school at the age of eight, where later he realized being black was a disadvantage because they didn’t have a place in society. Malcolm thought of being black hurt him; he thought he should hate himself for being who he is. He thought that everything happened because he was black.…