The 1960s was a time dealing with civil rights. There were many leaders during this time that had a huge impact on civil rights like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Both of these leaders were fighting for the rights of african americans, but they both had different viewpoints. MLK was a peaceful man, while Malcolm X was more aggressive. The two of these civil rights leaders had different philosophies but were both successful. However, Martin Luther King Jr. was more helpful during this time period.

One reason Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy made more sense than Malcolm X’s philosophy is, Martin Luther KIng Jr. wanted to work together with whites to act upon segregation. For example, MLK said “With this faith we will be able to work …show more content…
He wanted integrated schools. For example, Martin Luther KIng Jr. said “Let us march on segregated schools until every vestige of segregation and inferior education becomes a thing of the past and Negroes and whites study side by side in the socially healing context of the classroom…” (Document 4). Although, Malcolm says “The Organization of Afro-American Unity will devise original education methods and procedures which will liberate the minds of our children from the vicious lies and distortions that are fed to us from the cradle to keep us mentally enslaved” (Document 5). MLK wanted black and white children to go to school together. The more that blacks and whites were together the more the whites would start accepting the blacks. Martin Luther king Jr. wanted integrated schools so blacks were treated equally, and whites would end up working with the blacks going to white schools and eventually allow it. Malcolm X wanted the opposite though. He wanted segregated schools, where whites go to white schools, black go to black schools. The more people separated the black and white the longer it'll take for the whites to treat blacks equally. MLK had a better philosophy with schooling. By wanting blacks and whites to go to integrated schools it helped the blacks be treated more equally after a while because the whites eventually had nothing they could do accept for …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr. said “This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problem” (Document 8). Malcolm X didn’t like violence but he did what he had to do to protect his family his kind (blacks), and himself, and if that meant he had to be violent then he had to be violent. Malcolm said “Nonviolence is only preached to black Americans and I don’t go along with anyone who wants to teach our people nonviolence until someone at the same time is teaching our enemy to be nonviolent” (Document 9). Martin Luther King Jr. didn't want to be violent. MLK wanted to be able to fight for racial equality without being physical and violent. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted people to be safe throughout the Civil Rights, and he didn't want whites to be more violent, so he tried to solve the problem by being non violent. Malcolm on the other hand did what had to be done. If protecting his kind (black Americans) meant to be violent then he was going to be violent. Malcolm didn't like that the whites could be violent towards blacks but blacks couldn't really do anything back to the whites or they could be harmed worse. Malcolm said, "I believe we should protect ourselves by any means necessary when we are attacked by racists" (Document 9). Which means if whites are violent, Malcolm wanted to be