Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. King a...
However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ... And to top off the hippie era, one of the largest concerts in the world took place in Woodstock, New York. ...
Malcolm then pursued a life of crime alongside his friend "Shorty" in Harlem, New York. ... Malcolm began lecturing individuals of the Ghetto showing them how strong and united they would be under Elijah Muhammad and the Nation. ... He continued these preaching's and was credited for establishing new mosques in cities such as Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York. ...
Life in the ghettos of the big industrialised cities was characterised by social discrimination and de facto se-gregation. ... The masses in the northern ghettos were frustrated and hopeless because of the social discrimination and de facto segregation they experienced daily. ...
Social scientists have documented the rebellious spirit and acts of protest by blacks as they lay shackled in the holds of slave ships, labored in the fields of southern landowners, and settled into the urban ghettos. ... The NAACP had been founded in New York eight years earlier and had previously focused most of its organizing in the North. ...
