During that time he was an anti-religious person and then his brother wrote him a letter talking about a religion for black people which was known as the Nation of Islam. Now, in the Nation of Islam, it was different because these people read the Koran and looked at Allah as God. The leader, Wallace Fard, believed that "Christianity was the white man's religion" and that is true because of the times of slavery. Tied with Islam was the sense that blacks could have pride and nationalism. Later on, I found out that a new leader by the name of Elijah Muhammed was the main person that Malcolm had read from.
The strategy of the white man has always been divide and conquer. “He keeps us divided in order to conquer us.” As the speech goes on you can see Malcolm X’s words “ I think separation will get me freedom” He is for Black Nationalism, not integration. He is not for joining hands together as one with the white brother, but joining hands and efforts with his twenty-two million African-American brothers around the country. He asks the black community to unite and no longer take orders from anyone but those living the life they were leading. He like Dr.King demands change from empty promises.
But I am not dumbfounded of it all. The one person in the world that I can say is truly a great Haitian hero in my personal opinion is my late great grandfather, Bousett Herivaux. My great grandfather is my hero because he played the father role in my life, he served for his country, and he loved everyone with all of his heart. My great grandfather was truly one of a kind. As an infant my father had walked out on my mother and I.
He was close to his father and would often accompany him in his old touring car to Garveyite meetings. It was in these meetings where Malcolm learned his sense of self-pride. According to Renee Graves and many other authors, Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist who would preach for Marcus Garvey (Graves 5).
Although Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X seem to have mutual respect and warmth, as shown in the picture of their only meeting, their philosophies were quite different from each other (Document A). Malcolm X made it clear that he believed that the African Americans and the White people should remain separate but should be considered equal to each other. He told white people “work in conjunction with us-each of us working among our own kind.”(Document C). Martin Luther King Jr., on the other hand, continuously preached equality and desegregation. He wanted White people and African Americans to work together.
He was driven by the fact that he did not like to be treated differently just because of the color of his skin. He thought this was unfair for him and every black person around him. Still, to this day, Martin Luther King Jr. is looked upon as a hero to many. As time passed, King did more and more to help his fellow African American community through
King was assassinated at the time that he was beginning to turn his focus to questions of economic justice, but like his predecessors in the late nineteenth century, he too combined a theological passion for the freedom of America’s blacks and for the equitable treatment of America’s workers. Martin Luther king believed in the” triple evils of POVERTY, RACISM and MILITARISM are forms of violence that exist in a vicious cycle. They are interrelated, all-inclusive, and stand as barriers to our living in the Beloved Community. When we work to remedy one evil, we affect all evils. To work against the Triple Evils, you must develop a nonviolent frame of mind.” ( TheKingCenter.org) This is the work of the social
Name: Aly Ahmed Elshater Number : 2122 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. No singular person has so significantly influenced the social standings of a race of people and their treatment in society as Martin Luther King, Jr. Born Michael King on January 15th, 1929, Martin grew up in a Christian family in Atlanta, Georgia. A highly intelligent individual, King’s extensive education at numerous institutions influenced his ideals and who he later became. As he grew older, he rose to fame for his passionate, but nonviolent methods of protest against racism. Throughout his life, he had many monumental achievements that defined his place in history and influenced people of all upbringings
Malcolm was a Muslim former criminal who believed that African American should continue to be separated from whites and was willing to use force to achieve his goals, unlike Martin Luther King who was a Christian minister who believed in equal rights and was willing to use peaceful means to achieve his goals. Malcolm believed that African Americans should follow his philosophy called “Black Nationalism” which was basically to leave their personal differences and religions out and literally fight against the common issue they all had as African Americans. He also believed that people’s religion was what kept separating them because of their different views according on such religions. Although, he had some similarities with Marin L King like; uniting black people and communities to fight against
Whites knew that blacks consider themselves as lower to whites and whites took advantage of this. As a result, African Americans were also discriminated ideologically. Whites always considered blacks inferior and their deaths did not matter. South developed a class system to make blacks second class citizens. They thought of blacks as mules who just need full stomach and will work for you in return.