King for a while was about black rights such as voting and integration. ... King and X were the two largest driving forces behind the majority of the progress made in the Civil Rights Movement, however within the public school I realized that Malcolm X is not mentioned and that only Martin Luther King's legacy of nonviolence is celebrated. ... After learning that X was a vital figure in the Civil Rights Movement and helped empower blacks I began to read more on my own about X and other leading figures besides King in the Civil Rights Movement. ... The Herald Tribune implies that X was ...

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