Martin Luther King Jr. Vs. And Malcolm X

Almost everyone we meet will have different stances on various subjects. We were all blessed with the ability to think for ourselves and decide what we agree with. Often, this can cause conflict between two parties because their views are so drastically opposite. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached about equality and the desire for peaceful protest. Malcolm X promoted black supremacy and rejected the idea of integration. While Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X agreed that black people should not be treated as lower class citizens, they were different when it came to continuing segregation because of class rank and the backgrounds they came from. To begin with, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were similar because they both wanted racial equality. Many people in this country during the 1950’s agreed that it was time for black people to be treated as equal citizens. Slavery had ended more than 85 years before and they were finally coming around to realize that the way black people were being treated was not right. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X both wanted their race to have equal rights. Even though they had different ideas on how to get them, they both strove for racial equality. Times were quickly changing and some people,
and Malcolm X came from were drastically different. Martin Luther King, Jr. was raised in a Christian household by his father, a pastor, and his mother, a homemaker and associate-pastor. Malcolm X had a very different childhood; his father was killed in what he believed was a racially motivated “accident” and his mother was sent to an insane asylum a few years later, leaving Malcolm and his siblings to be sent to foster homes. Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up and became a Baptist pastor, following in his fathers’ footsteps. Malcolm X converted to Islam while he was still a young adult and never truly stopped hating white people for what he thought they had done to his