MLK And Malcolm X Comparison

Martin Luther King and Malcolm Civil Rights Movement. They were trying to fight for African American during the civil right movement. They both had very different philosophies, but whose philosophy made the most sense for America in the 1960s? Malcolm X, a great leader in the Civil Right era, had a very tough life at a young age because of his father dying and his mother having a mental break was sent to foster house. Malcolm X got his ideas by going to jail because of drugs from Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X believed in segregation and also violence if necessary. MLK was a middle class family, kid and faced racism at a young age. MLK was more towards integration and didn't believe in violence. MLK and Malcolm X both had great philosophies, but only some of their philosophies were effective in the 1960s for America. Malcolm X’s philosophy made more sense in term of working together or separately in the 1960s for America. The reason his philosophy made more sense was because he said that “Working separately, the sincere white people and sincere black people actually will be working together” Malcolm X meant that blacks and white should work separately because white are not going to listen
But I’m also a realist” He is trying to say if a thing can be done non-violently than it would be great, but if necessary we and if we are attacked, we should use violence in the 1960s MLK’s philosophy was probably not going to work because if black don’t protect themselves (Document 9). “Violence may murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder” MLK’s philosophy is totally agreeable that violence is not the key to violence or to the problems, but it was just not going to work in the 1960s for blacks because they had to protect themselves (Document