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. ... As another enigmatic figure of the Black Power movement Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X, positioned himself in sharp contrast to King. ... This statement indicates clearly that the legitimacy of the State itself was challenged by the radical wing of the movement for Black ...

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Both are synonymous with black and equal rights and the civil rights movement of the 1950's and early 60's. ... Influenced By Mahatma Gandhi and the victory Gandhi gained with his non-violent civil disobedience policy, Martin as an African American leader, urged his people to act in a civil well mannered way; but to resist oppression, a hybrid method of "fighting back the system" while showing that African Americans can have eloquence and defy violent negative stereotypes; he called it nonviolent resistance. ... With the gift of commentary and the power to influence and mov...

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