If one could name two of the most important and iconic African American activist they would probably name Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. ... Martin Luther King lived in a middle class section of Atlanta Georgia, his father was a minister. ... King's ideas, although he did not advocate violence or hate, his arguments against King reflected what he thought African Americans needed to do to break segregation. Malcolm argued against King's non-violent resistant approach even stating that, Dr. King was a "modern Uncle Tom". ...

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Martin Luther King Jr., in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and Dr. ... Martin Luther King Jr. carefully examines this consequence in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," throughout which he describes the fight for equality and unity as almost nonexistent for some groups of people. ... Three forces oppose King and his cause: white moderates, complacent Negroes, and black nationalist groups (King). ... Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. ... Martin Luther King Jr., in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and Dr. ...

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The open letter, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," by Martin Luther King Jr., was written to his ministers in a response to their criticism about his actions in Birmingham. ... (King, p.1) He finds God in everything and believed in "the interrelatedness of all communities and states.... (King, p.5) But Mr. ... King appeals emotionally and reasonably with various examples of nonviolent effective actions, methods, and understanding. ... King believed that people should work together "because integration is morally right," and "because the sacred heritage of our natio...

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As a somewhat arbitrary starting point, the year 1964 did not only witness the implementation of the Civil Rights Act in the United States, which put an official end to racial segregation - it also was the year that African American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, won the prestigious Noble Peace Prize. King was a man who opted for non-violent civil disobedience as a means to accomplish his aims, and encouraged his fellow African-American citizens to follow his example. As another enigmatic figure of the Black Power movement Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X, positioned himself ...

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