The Impact Of The Black Panthers On The Civil Rights Movement

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Malcolm X was a very influential leader during the Civil Rights Era, but he didn’t always have a positive outlook on how White Americans treated African Americans. Malcolm X was a prominent figure during the civil rights era and he wasn’t for integration and peace as other Civil Rights leaders of this time. In fact Malcolm X advocated and suggested an establishment of a separate black community, rather than integration and he provoked and influenced the Panthers to use violence as self defense, rather than non violence and trying to make peace, Malcolm and the Panthers uncompromising and disgusting beliefs of the evil of the white man scared and made the white man frightened the white community. Malcolm and the panthers had a good and bad affect on the Civil Rights era, him and the panthers used violence, criminal activity and anti-racism to get their points across which had a toll on the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966, and they played a short and different role in the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers believed that the non-violent word that Martin Luther King was trying to spread failed, and felt as if they should take matters into their own hands because of the ‘traditional’ Civil Rights would take to long, or wouldn't be compromised with the White man. The Black Panthers followed what Malcolm X said and used violence in a way to get their points across which might of not been such a good idea, and this making the Civil Rights movement being more difficult to built upon the fact that a lot of violence was spreading it was hard for people to get a ‘positive’ outlook on things. The language the Black Panthers used was very violent, as well as their public stance,... ... middle of paper ... ...disfunctional, and influential role in the Civil Rights era, even though they weren’t as smart about their decisions and couldn’t get over the affects of how White Americans treated African Americans and how white Policeman treated innocent African Americans, so they resulted in violence, which probably wasn’t the best idea. The Panthers were in alot of criminal activity but this was to show the “Pigs” that they weren’t scared of them, and that they could do the same thing they was doing, which was threatening innocent people,harming innocent people, and destroying innocent things just like they could do. The Black Panthers role was a very important role in the Civil Rights movement, even though they put a block on what African Americans could’ve achieved without the violence and criminal activity, they still made a stance because that’s what they were there for.

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