Like Douglass, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King realized that white people have committed injustices against blacks and as a result blacks do not have equal rights or opportunities and this has created problems in the black community. ... Not until eighth grade when my mother told me to read Malcolm X's autobiography did I learn who he was. ... My mom knew to tell me to study X because she was not taught about him in school. Her purpose of me learning about X was to pass on a sense of identity, history, and cultural pride. The claiming back of history and racial pride that Malcolm X st...

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My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about him to me. ... One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towards Mexican people. ... After a while my host sister shared my opinion and came along with me. It made me feel great and I thought of Martin Luther King in this situation and that is why I think I have chosen this topic. ... He helped me to find some great speeches of Martin Luther King and to get started. ...

• Word Count: 4457
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some altogether different like Martin Luther King Jr. are born to be revolutionary leaders. ... Much like his son would be, King Sr. was also quite the activist. ... "How could I love a race of people who hated me and who had been responsible for breaking me up with one of my best childhood friends?" ... The economy of Montgomery struggled without the bus fares, which for the majority came from blacks. ... This was an enormous win for King and the black population as a whole, and although it angered the whites significantly and caused much more violence towards blacks, it only increased...

• Word Count: 3793
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Kennedy, called for the adoption of new civil rights laws, with equal rights for blacks. ... In 1960, black college students protest wave lifted the seat, which promotes the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. ... Unarmed black demonstrators and police dogs and armed with conflict between police fire water cannon, as newspaper headlines around the world. ... Malcolm love Vieques's concept of self-defense and black nationalism aroused sympathy north, the force exceeds urban black gold made the call for nonviolence. ... He said, "Now that has happened, I'm glad ...

• Word Count: 3040
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The moral compass of natural law would bring an end to segregation and discrimination that had been forced on the black members of society through hundreds of years of positivist law that unfairly disbursed the burdens of the society in the pursuit of the common good. ... This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"" (SullenToys, 2011). ... King expressed to his followers that although harm had been done to the black community through oppression the rise to equality should ...

• Word Count: 2706
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Begun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement appeared while I was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing paper supplied by a friendly Negro trusty, and concluded on a pad my attorneys were eventually permitted to leave me. ... Under the leadership of King, the organization utilized the power and independence of black churches as the strength of its activities. ... Rather than seeking individual membership, it coordinated the activities of local organizations like the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council. ... ACM...

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