It’s Justin, your beloved and most handsome grandson. How are you doing back home in California? Do you still drink your banana split smoothie in every day? Remember grandpa, it’s not good for your health if you drink it everyday, because at your age you need to watch what you eat. How’s grandma by the way grandpa? Can you tell her that I miss her alot and her delicious apple pie. I have some good news for you guys, I am coming back home really soon and I can’t wait to see you guys again. Anyway, you must be wondering how my life has been over the past few year in Texas. Well, let me tell you, it wasn’t great, but I manage to survive. Have you ever heard of the term Civil Rights? It basically mean that every citizens have the rights to political …show more content…
and social freedom and equality. Over the past few years, many people had not been able to gain their rights. The people that I’m talking about here is us African Americans. Another word that I want you to tell you is segregation. Segregation mean the action of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. Well, segregation divided African Americans from other races such as White. In 1960, African American are denied access to jobs, housing, transportation such as buses and are refused service at restaurants and stores.
For example, I once heard about a lady name Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, she is African American. What I heard is that she refused to give up her seat on the bus because the bus driver ask her to move so a white person can sit down. Later on, she was arrested because she refused to give up her seat. The reason that I’m telling you this is because our people are being treated very badly and were not able to gain their rights. Did I tell you that I made a new friend? His name is James Meredith. He was one of my closest friend and was the first African to register for college in 1962. James is an Air Force veteran who won a federal case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi. However, when he arrived on campus, he faced Governor Ross Barnett a Southern Democrats who supported racial segregation, who refused to let James register as a student. But a miracle happens to James when President Kennedy ordered federal marshal to escort James to the registrar’s office. Due to this event, a riots broke out on campus and two people die as a result. The reason why the riots happen is because of Governor Barnett who went on the radio and encourage the whites to never surrender and they should fight back. Life has been hard for most of us African Americans but we are still manage to fight back with all our heart and …show more content…
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Grandpa, do you know who Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are? Well, they are both Civil Rights fighter to fight for what they believe in, in order to gain rights for their people. Martin Luther King was an African American Baptist minister and Malcolm X was a African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. I’m pretty sure that you think these two men both believe in the same ideas to end segregation but I would disagree with you on that. The reason why is because Martin Luther King was an integrationist, who wanted blacks and whites to work together towards a society in which all races got along together and mixed with one another as equals. On the other hand, Malcolm X wanted blacks to keep to themselves. He wanted them to have equal rights and to be economically strong just like King did. However, he wanted them to get those rights without white help and he did not think that cooperating with whites was a good things. I don’t know who you would support King or Malcolm X, but to me personally I would support Martin Luther King. The reason why is because I believe that everybody should come together and work as one in order to make our country stronger. If both side whites and blacks begin to hate each other and uses force instead of talking it out, it would lead to a very bad consequences. That is why I joined the SCLC, to continue on Martin Luther King idea of nonviolence against the whites. The SCLC is known as The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. Our purpose is to carry on nonviolent crusade against the whites race. I wanted to help our people gain rights and freedom in order to live a life full of happiness. We keep on fighting until we get what we want, we will also get back up if we fall down, and if all hopes is lost, we find another way to stand up and fight. Well, this is the end of my letter, I better get going to meet my friends. I hope that you will believe in the same ideas that I believe in order to gain rights for our people. I love you grandpa, and can you tell grandma that I will be coming home soon. Thanks grandpa, keep drinking your banana split smoothie. Love, Your grandson Justin
Individuals’ right to keep and bear arms in self-defense should be further restricted. For example, George Zimmermann – neighborhood watch citizen responsible for the teenager Treyvon Martin’s death
The Civil Rights movement was a movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern States that became nationally recognized in the middle of the 1950s. Though American slaves were given basic civil rights through the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the Constitution, African Americans still had a hard time trying to get federal protection of their newly found rights. A man by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the American Civil rights Leaders who used nonviolence in order to reach a social change. He used nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice against African Americans like segregation laws. He wasn’t just fighting for the equality of all African American but was also fighting for the equality of all men and women. Malcolm X is another great leader who fought for what he believed in. He was a black activist who, unlike King, promoted a little violence. Malcolm X wanted the nation (African Americans) to become more active in the civil rights protests. Both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had different methods for gaining civil rights. I believe that Martin Luther King Jr. method was more effective thanMalcolm X methods. In King “’Letter from Birmingham Jail” King defends himself on writing about why he is using nonviolent resistance to racism. Throughout the letter he shows his reasoning using logic, emotion, and ethics. Throughout his life King used this same method to reach how to hundred of thousands of African Americans.
In the letter, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr, and the speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet” by Malcolm X, the authors discuss their very different viewpoints on what form of freedom would it take to accomplished their goal. While King believes that peaceful approaches would allow the black community to achieve equality with the white Americans, Malcolm X thinks achieving equality with white Americans is nearly impossible; therefore, he preaches a separatist doctrine. Although King and X are both fighting for the black community’s rights and their integration into the nation’s system, their approaches differ significantly. King and X differ in three main areas: their ultimate goals, the strategies to accomplish those goals, and their use of rhetoric.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X DBQ Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were both African American civil rights leaders wanting to bring freedom to black people during the 1960s. Even though both leaders wanted to liberate black people, their philosophies were drastically different. Malcolm X wanted racial separation, while Martin Luther King wanted both races to coexist. Religion is also a major part of this situation because most African Americans, including MLK in America, were Christian. Malcolm X’s goal was to turn all people who follow his path into Muslims.
In history we know that no two men are alike but, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were phenomenal people and leaders. Both had visualized some type of change in the future, yet were not literally able to see it. Both Dr. King and Malcolm X set out to bring a sense of confidence to blacks all over the United States. Their main purpose was to help instill black’s power and strength so that they could overcome racial disparity and prejudice that surrounded them, but both of them had very unique and distinct different ways of promoting their message. Martin was more geared and focused on equality and wellness of the world as a whole, a Malcolm X’s personal interpretation of the world was very well blinded by anger, bitterness, and the desire to get revenge at the expense of the world that he thought treated him unfairly.
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. African Americans are fortunate to have leaders who have fought for a difference in Black America. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are two powerful men in particular who brought hope to blacks in the United States. Both preached the same message about Blacks having power and strength in the midst of all the hatred that surrounded them. Even though they shared the same dream of equality for their people, the tactics they implied to make these dreams a reality were very different. The background, environment and philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were largely responsible for the distinctly varying responses to American racism.
Martin Luther King, his views and ideas were very far from Kings. Malcolm X states his views on how to stand up for himself and the just of the African Americans in Message to the Grassroots. Malcolm X’s and King's views were very different, in that Malcolm X states in his speech that people like King were “Uncle Toms” and speak as though they were traitors to their race. Malcolm X makes a clear statement how he believes that African Americans have a right to self-defense. He also agrees that there should be a call for a revolution, but he disagrees that there cannot be a non-violent revolution; rather, drastic action needed to be taken. He then goes on to say that all blacks need to unite against a common enemy, which is the "white man". Not only does the "black man" need to go against the whites but so also does every other man. He backs up his argument with facts about the revolution against colonial rule throughout Africa, where the rulers were white Europeans. He also mentions the revolutions in the Middle East and Asia, which were also against white
In the past, it is true that African American have suffered injustice, however, today there are still some wounds that needs healing from harsh treatment blacks people experience from whites people back during the civil right movement. Now, some whites are in positions where they are able to use their authority and demand unnecessary respect from minorities in certain situations, just so they could be in control. “In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand” (Baldwin, 2000, p31). For instance, threatening to fire or suspend someone for not allowing them to be in control is the same attitude people had back then. Because of this, some blacks feel that they need to respond in any way possible to make their point. In other words, the attitude that some blacks have express at some point could be aggressive at time.
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were both important activists in the fight for civil rights. They had the same desire for equal rights; however, they adopted very different views on how to achieve those rights. As Goldman says in Malcolm X: Witness for the Prosecution, “Malcolm and King were not so much Manichaean opposites as halves in a yin-yang duality deep in the black soul” (pg. 226). King is known as a peaceful man who used a nonviolent approach. He used what he called “weapons of love” to fight for freedom. King was fighting to show people that they could accept blacks and look at them as equals. It was vital for him to find peace among all races and overcome the hatred felt for one another. Malcolm used an “any means necessary" approach in his fight. He was fighting to show African Americans that they should be proud of whom they were. The empowerment of his people was more important to him than living peacefully with whites. Although the tactics they used differed with one in other, King and Malcolm both inspired African Americans to fight for justice and the civil rights they deserved.
Unlike many other countries America has freedom of speech. Even in other countries in Europe people are not allowed to use “hate speech” and they can be sent to prison for it. Fortunately, the American constitution defends people’s freedom of speech, no matter how controversial it is. Political correctness diminishes people’s free speech. It may not be direct but even indirectly the knowledge that someone might have adverse consequences; such as losing a job as a result of their speech is unacceptable. People have the right to state their opinions without others infringing on them, it was the principle in which America was founded. The first amendment of the constitution of the United States declares that: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” (US Const. amend. I, sec. i). While the first amendment only affects congress’s control over free speech, it indicates that free speech is a right that people must have. Some people are of the opinion that if something can be found offensive
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are both remembered as leaders who fought for a difference in black America. Both tried to bring hope to blacks in the United States. They also tried to instill within blacks power and strength so they could rise above all the hatred that surrounded them, but both of them had very different ways of promoting their message. Malcolm X had a much more extremist approach. Many say that this approach came from his neglectful childhood and early adulthood. King had a much more calm approach. Some have said that this non-violent approach came from his safe, middle-class environment. Even though they were different in addressing their messages about black respect and pride, they both had the same goal in mind. That goal was to achieve equality between all races.
Although they both sought to achieve equal rights for black citizens, Martin Luther King Jr.'s non-violent, peaceful resistance was more effective in accomplishing this goal than Malcolm X's hatred toward his white oppressors. Martin Luther King used his faith and his personal ideals about peaceful resistance to combat injustice that existed because of Jim Crow Laws. He and his followers believed that civil disobedience was the most effective way to fight injustice. This included the Freedom Rides, Protest, and Civil Disobedience. Malcolm X, on the other hand, used any means necessary to be heard, even violence.
The similarities in between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are very prominent African American individuals throughout history. They fought for what they stood for but in many different ways. As we all know in history there are no two great men that are alike. Their many beliefs may have blossomed from the households they came from and how they grew up. At the end, the leader of two different movement had been assassinated. With that event, both movement make a big march for the justice of the leader of their
MLK and Malcolm X had different ideas on how the civil rights movement should be handled. MLK wanted to be equal to whites not be segregated and to be free.Malcolm X wanted to be free just like MLK but had different ideas on what to do. MLK’s philosophy was a peaceful way to lead the civil rights movement. He followed the same kind of ideas that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Malcolm X had a lot of good points that made sense. Such as the fact that he kinda went ff of the universal law or the Golden Rule “Treat upon others as you would like treated to yourself”. He thought that if MLK wanted to preach non violence that was great but until the people who look down on African americans also went through the path of nonviolence. MLK and Malcolm X were raised very differently MLK was raised in a religious household by a father that was a pastor. While Malcolm X was raised on the streets and was into drugs and lived a
It was October 6, 1998 when he was lured from the bar that cold, fateful night. His skull was smashed with a pistol butt as he was lashed to a fence, left for dead in near freezing temperatures. Nearly eighteen hours later he was found by passersby and taken to a hospital where he remained in a coma for several days until slowly slipping away. At his funeral, picketers carried signs saying, "God Hates Fags" and "Fags Deserve to Die."