Malcolm X versus Martin Luther King Jr

   Source: Al Jazeera Jan 16, 2024 No Comments

Category: Featured, Highlights, Life & Society, Videos Topics: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Views: 2160
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A half-century after their deaths, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X remain two of the world's most revered political activists.

They were both respected leaders of the American Civil Rights movement, struggling for racial equality and freedom. But at the start of the 1960s, the media were constructing a conflict that stirred the civil rights debate: Malcolm X versus Reverend Martin Luther King. While King advocated non-violent direct action and passive resistance to achieve equal civil rights, Malcolm X was the spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI), the black Muslim movement which violently rejected white America and its Christian values, and preached the supremacy of blacks over whites.

  Category: Featured, Highlights, Life & Society, Videos
  Topics: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King
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