Use of TV by Martin Luther King and Malcolm X During the Civil Rights Movement

There were many different aspects of factors that helped Black people

gain Civil Rights. Television was one of these factors but also it was

down to other types of technology to help black people get their views

across to people. Two of these people are Martin Luther King and

Malcolm X, these men are known as two of the most devoted and

influential people in black history.

The blacks of America craved basic civil rights, as they couldn't have

any view for themselves without it. The civil rights movement started

in the end of the 1950s and various protests broke the pattern of

racially segregated public facilities in the South and achieved the

most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for blacks in

America. Civil rights are freedoms and rights guaranteed to a member

of a community, state, or nation. Freedom of speech, of the press, of

religion, and of fair and equal treatment is the basic civil rights.

Black protestors like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King made many

important speeches on TV that would have helped the nationwide

campaign for civil rights. By putting their speeches on TV they are

broadcasting their view on how blacks are being treated to a wider

audience.

Martin Luther King believed that the whites and Blacks should be able

to live with each other in the same company comfortably and without

any stereotypical views hindering people's lives. He felt that blacks

had waited 'more than three hundred and forty years for our

constitutional and God-given rights'. Martin Luther King protested

peacefully for the rights he felt like blacks deserved. He believed

that if he organised non-violent protests th...

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...istory as they were able to achieve something

without using and type of violence. Striking and boycotting spread

rapidly to other communities. During the period from 1955 to 1960,

some progress was made toward integrating schools and other public

facilities in the upper South and the Border States.

In conclusion I believe that television media was an important aspect

of Black people achieving Civil Rights but it couldn't have been

achieved without everything else I have explained. Without people such

as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and the American Presidents

television wouldn't have been used to aid Black people in gaining

civil rights. These people used the media to its best advantage as it

showed peoples protests and emotive speeches, which gave them the

rights they had fought for as well as deserved for so long.