Compare And Contrast Malcolm X And The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement began shortly after the end of World War II. Some might even say that it began before that. The United States took the biggest turn on the civil road with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Brown vs. the Board of Education case. This decision sparked a revolution that would forever change America. Once this movement began there was stopping it, no turning back, and Martin Luther King Jr. realized this while Malcolm X didn‘t. He preached a change that the African Americans would force but only through nonviolence. Martin Luther King’s philosophy made more sense for America in the 1960s because it pushed America forward, it stopped bloodshed through nonviolence and love, and it called to make everyone equal and together. and Malcolm X had opposite views when it came down to how they wanted to fight the Civil Rights Movement. King took the nonviolent path while Malcolm X led his way down the violent path. King believed that blacks should not cooperate with evil, but rather with marching and boycotting. He believed that violence increased hate and that it was a spiral that leads to nowhere, it solves no problems. He had considered violence but then said, “in the event of a violent revolution. We would be sorely outnumbered… American Negro has no alternative to nonviolence.” Martin Luther King Jr. firmly believed in the power of love over hate. He knew that the blacks could endure all of the pain and suffering that whites inflicted on them and that whites would soon grow tired of their capacity to suffer. He believed that they could appeal to the hearts of the white people which was exactly what was good for the nation at that time,
He wanted the Negroes to fight back. He wanted the White people to suffer the way that the Black people did. He believed that the white people only had one language, blood and brutality, and the only way to get them to listen was to talk to them in their own language. Malcolm X wasn’t really afraid of what the white people might do to him. He preached against nonviolence but agreed that they needed peace. He wanted to retaliate against the white people who cause damage to them. He said that he believes that the Blacks should protect themselves by any means necessary when they are attacked by racists. This would only increase the bloodshed and casualties on both sides. While both of these men preached equality, one preached unity, while the other preached separate race equality. Malcolm X believed that boycotting and marching wouldn’t help equality. He believed that Blacks needed to stop spending money in white communities and start to spend money in their own communities so that they could build up their own economy. Martin Luther King wanted a unity with the white people. He wanted them to be together and equal, brother and sister, a family. He wanted segregation and education especially to be their past so that their future could brighten. A vision that America needed in the 1960’s rather than blood and bodies