... 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. In school I did not learn about King's Campaigns, ... played in achieving black self-determination, giving black's hope, or empowering blacks. Not until eighth grade when my mother told me to read Malcolm X's autobiography did I learn who he was. My mother stressed learning about him to know my own black history. My mom knew to tell ......

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... Bonds, Massie writes, "Some of the strongest influences on Biko's thought however, came from the United States. American texts such as the Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Black Power by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton passed from hand to hand through SASOs top circles. Fascinated by developments in the United States, Biko read as widely as ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate