Martin_Luther_And_Malcom_X

Martin Luther And Malcom X Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Different Men With the Same Goal Martin Luther King jr. and Malcolm X are still highly controversial African-American leaders. Martin, a Christian integrationist, and Malcolm, a Muslim nationalist have been a powerful force against racial injustice. Each man sacrificed his life for the freedom of his people; however, Martin and Malcolm had taken very different approaches in achieving equality and identity for African-Americans in the land of their birth. In order to better understand why King and X took the course of action each took, one must take into account a little bit of their background. Martin Luther King jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia into a middle-class family. The church was his source of leadership development and it helped provide him with moral values. Home and church were the most important influences in the early life of King. In both contexts, he was introduced to the integrationist values of protest, accommodations, self-help and optimism as they were related to the religious themes of justice, love and hope. He was introduced to the value of education as a potent way of helping malcolm, king, martin, black, people, love, freedom, dream, children, because, king’s, human, however, blacks, white, way, justice, both, american, african-americans, african-american, violence, thought, segregation, nonviolent, malcolm’s, luther, leaders, important, hamilton, haley, equality, beings, been, walton