King Jr. V.S. Malcolm X
Are these two men equal?
Dr king
Dr. king jr. had been born on January 15th 1929. His was a religious man and had been a baptist minister by the time he had become a civil rights activist in the 1950s. He was the leader of SCLC and had believed in peaceful protests. Dr. king Jr. had adopted Martin Luther in his name in honor of the German Protestant Martin Luther
Dr. King Jr. was as many people saw him he was a charitable man and had been doing many things for society that had been benefiting the African-Americans of American. This is also further proved because he had world recognition and the world was watching because he did receive the Nobel Peace prize in 1964.Malcom X
Malcolm X had been born on May 19 1925. His Father was a Baptist minister and was an avid believer in Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. This caused his family to move around multiple times while he was young. His Father was killed in 1931 two years after his house in Michigan was destroyed.
He then returned to where he had been born, Boston, after he had returned he was convicted with burglary and had 10 years of prison but sent of parole after 7 years. He remembered his brother talking about NCI one day and decided to look up on them. Soon he converted to the Muslim religion and dropped the "little" in his name for the "X" symbolizing his lost tribal name.
Part of his "I have a dream"
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
Part of his "I have a dream"
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Part of his "I have a dream"
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
Part of his Alabama speech
We have come over a way
That with tears hath been watered. (Yes, sir)
We have come treading our paths
Through the blood of the slaughtered. (Yes, sir)
Out of the gloomy past, (Yes, sir)
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam
Of our bright star is cast. (Speak, sir)
Part of his Alabama speech
They told us we wouldn’t get here. And there were those who said that we would get here only over their dead bodies, (Well. Yes, sir. Talk) but all the world today knows that we are here and we are standing before the forces of power in the state of Alabama saying, "We ain’t goin’ let nobody turn us around." (Yes, sir. Speak) [Applause]
A quote by Dr. KIng Jr.
is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate....
Returning violence for violence multiples violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Quote by Malcolm
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Quote by Malcom
Quote by Malcom
His speech about religion and racism (before islam trip)
After his trip to Mecca and accepting true islam
After his trip to mecca before true islam
What did they do?
Dr. King jr. had made great advances for the African Americans of America. He did so with his peace marches. The one that is best known is his "I have a dream" speech which is the March on Washington. With his influence he had a conference with JFK and made a good impression with the President causing the beginnings of the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Malcolm X had a more aggressive approach in terms of ways of going about getting their civil rights. Malcolm X had been trying to rile them up, get them aggravated but at the same time controlling how much they would be angry. He had been overshadowed by MLK because of the fact that Historians prefer MLK's way and want that to happen rather then controlling the people's anger