Of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, who do you think was the more successful in their approach to improving the lives of African-Americans today?

... Of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, who do you think was the more successful in their approach to improving the lives of African-Americans today? The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, black people struggled toward the same goal that the slaves had struggled toward so many years before-freedom. This time it was not freedom from enslavement, but freedom to enjoy all the benefits of life in America. At first the movement, under Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s leadership, was a non-violent one. But gradually people became impatient with this approach, and leaders with a more militant outlook gained followers. It was a tumultuous time and often a frightening one. Dr. King wants the same thing I want- freedom! - Malcolm X, 1964 Malcolm Little, changed his changed his last name to "X," a custom among Nation of Islam followers who considered their family names to have originated with white slaveholders. Spoke

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