Within the past forty years, there have been many leaders that have made an impact on the civil rights movement. Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton are just two examples of civil rights leaders, who are fighting even today for racial equality. The late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, President Kennedy, and his brother Robert Kennedy were also leaders in the civil rights movement. Although many people contributed then efforts in the past forty years, many people would argue that no one did so more than Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Malcolm X and Martin Luther Junior were two leaders, who had different views, created a new identity for African American that has changed the American society today.
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X both were civil rights leaders, who believed in civil rights, and equality, and were against discrimination. But the method of the movement.
adopted by these two leaders, where they were different. Martin Luther King believed in non-violence, and was one of non-violence movement to achieve freedom, and civil right in his pursuit. For example he states, "Black power is not black supremacy; it is a united black voice reflecting racial pride in the tradition of our heterogeneous nation. Black power does not mean the exclusion of White Americans from the Negro Revolution; it means the inclusion of all men in a common moral and political struggle." (Marable pg.94) MLK was not against all white, but only against those who believed in segregation, and discrimination. MLK had at least twenty of whites on his platform, who were also raising their voice against the segregation, and inequality.
Although in Malcolm X method was different then Martin Luther King, he was a stereotype, who preached hate, who were against white majority. He wanted to achieve his goal by violence, and hate against anybody, who were against the movement of civil right. He was angry towards white people for their attitude, and treatment to the colored people.