Malcolm X as an Activist During the 1960’s, there was one man who really stood out about expressing the hardships of being an African American. This man was Malcolm X. Ultimately, Malcolm X believed to the fullest extent, that African American’s could not reach their full potential in society because of white racism, and the historical events leading from slavery in the United States. However, due to the events that happened in his childhood, Malcolm X tries to reverse this feeling of victimization throughout his life and tries to become a positive activist for all African Americans. Throughout his life and up until the day he dies, Malcolm X tries to pursue this ultimate goal of seeing white racism in a positive light and making something good come out of the events that happened in his life.
Some of these groups and people included ‘Malcolm X’, Rosa Parks, and ‘The Black Panthers’. Malcolm X saw King’s campaign as trying to persuade the African American citizens to forget the days of slavery, and forget what the white men had done to their people. His stance was passive/aggressive and wanted equality by any means, including violence. Malcolm X was assassinated by a white supremacist during a speech and died of bullet wounds. Also, ‘The Black Panthers’ were a very violent group and saw King’s campaign as time consuming and feared it being forgotten in the process.
Upon release, Malcolm X rapidly gained prominence in the Nation of Islam and traveled the United States, founding new mosques in many cities. During his travels, he became acquainted with public speaking while trying to gain converts, and advocated for a black uprising. Unintentionally gaining more attention than the founder himself, Malcolm gained the position of National Minister, only to have a falling out with the Nation of Islam after a scandal and disagreement on how to best draw in black support. After the falling out, he founded Muslim Mosque, Inc., an organization that calls on all African-Americans, regardless of religion, to help take a stand against white racism. In his autobiography, Malcolm X continued his controversial, yet honest arguments.
So they just kept holding the thought that black people were not deserved to be treated equally. Baldwin and his father, the first and second generation of freemen, was a typical example of discrimination in this time. Throughout this essay, Baldwin has explained his strained relationship with his father because of all the anger and paranoia his father expressed during his childhood. But also at the same time, he regretted that he did not get to know him better when he was alive since the moment Baldwin realized that his father was only trying to protect him from racism. By going through all the experiences that Baldwin and his father had earned by their skin color, he himself have learnt about what position he and Negroes in general were placed in by the society in that time and how he has figured a way out.
Marcus traveled to the U.S. in 1916 to give a lecture tour and raise money to build a school in Jamaica. Marcus moved to New York and found a job as a printer during the day. At night he would speak on the street and it was here where he started to become an African American leader. Marcus and 13 others created the first UNIA section outside Jamaica and started to talk about freedom for blacks. When the East St. Louis Riots broke out, Marcus responded to the riots by giving a speech where he said that the riots were an outrage.
This is the description of the opposite of the American Dream: American Hunger. Yearning for the American Dream, despite their knowledge of not being able to obtain it because of the color of their skin and not the content of their character. Being an African American, Wright was forced to live the American Hunger lifestyle. “Wright… hungered for a fully human experience. He felt that as an African American man from the south, being
Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream) In “I Have a Dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out to the nation how the black people struggle on a daily basis with segregation and discrimination in a country that calls itself a free nation. First, King mentions how he is standing in the shadows of a great American that signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the Negros of this country from slavery. King expresses how this was a beacon of light to millions of Negros, that brought them from the flames of withering injustice to a joyous daybreak, and how this was an end to their dark captivity. King goes on to say, after a hundred years the black man is still being crippled with the ongoing problems of segregation and discrimination, and how the Negroes feel like they are being exiled in their own country. King illustrates that they are in the nation’s capital to cash a check, which the architects of this country wrote by signing the Constitution and the Declarations of Independence.
Movie stars gave speeches in schools factories and street corners to help stop bonds free of charge. Also, did newspapers, created the first propaganda agency. CPI -- George Creel, who took 75,000 men to be "Four Minute Men". Creel wanted the words "How the War Came to America", so he ordered 7million of prints of it, in addition in 6 other languages. Additionally, Africans American created an impact on the Great Migration that led to Southern black to move to cities.
Richard’s grandmother was always excessively beating him. From the beginning, Richard would not subdue himself to the white man like the other black people around. The white people knew that he was different from other black men. Whites were scared because Richard challenged the system that they had created to insure white supremacy. They feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist feelings in order to cover up their fear.
Rather than being a judge of his people, he was merely a citizen complaining about social injustices in his country. Paton’s condescending tone when speaking about the white people’s unfairness towards the blacks adds to his argumentative diction. For instance, Arthur writes, “We shift our ground again…and feel deep pity for a man who is condemned to the loneliness of being remarkable.” The words “deep pity” and “loneliness” contrast “remarkable”. When something is remarkable it is held in high esteem. The white people’s view of a black man was so low that even if he was more successful than one of them, he’d still be at the bottom of society.