Malcolm X was a civil rights activist who was very different in the way he protested. He was a vocal protester and did it without causing violence. He was different on many aspects such as, he wasn’t always a peaceful protester. Early in Malcolm’s career he was a violent protester. The violent things that surrounded him when he was younger made him a violent protester. Malcolm X as born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. Mother of of Malcolm Louise Norton was
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Americans have the same voting rights as the whites but, their equal right had not secured. Instead, they were scant by racist registration officers. The victorious lead by Martin Luther King Jr. and his siblings brought one of the most significant victories in the Civil Right Movements. This movement forever changed our history. Despite the 14th and 15th amendments, the civil rights of African Americans right to vote were systematically taken away. After the Civil War, Congress prevented
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Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Ann Johnson, in Saint Louis Missouri. Her parents were Bailey and Vivian Baxter Johnson. Maya parents divorced and she and Brother Bailey Jr. had to live with her father's mother, Mrs. Annie Henderson, in stamps, Arkansas. Maya was sexually abused and raped by her mother’s boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. Maya told her mother what he had done to her. And that same night he was beaten to death by a mob of man. The Shock made Maya mute because she thought that her voice
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Dear Martin Luther King Jr, We are two leaders to our people in this time of the civil rights movement. We are two leaders leading are fellow Black Americans in two very different directions. I of an Islamic culture and yourself as a Baptist, I having a past of wrongs and an illegal violent lifestyle and you being born into christianity and lastly you wanting segregation to end completely and for white people and black people to come together as one, and I wanting black people to be independent
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Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of
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Ever since the Reconstruction era after the Civil War there has been the issue of race and equality and rights. A movement occurred and two men gained power and influence the African American community. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X two men having experienced different things in their lives held different beliefs and morals and influenced people based upon those things. Martin Luther King Jr., came from a Baptist home with a fairly easy childhood, he was educated when he was younger and
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Mississippi. During Freedom Summer in 1964, Chaney worked with an interracial team, including New Yorkers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, to organize a community center in Meridian and to register African Americans for voting. James Chaney, civil rights hero and martyr On June 21, 1964, with two Jewish associates, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman working with the CORE Mississippi Freedom Summer project, the three set out to investigate a church bombing in Longdale, MS, a potential site for
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Martin & Malcolm & America In this paper, there will be a primary focus on two of the most prominent leaders during the civil rights era. These two leaders are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. The paper will discuss how these extraordinary men made their phenomenal contributions to America by offering to bring about their own political, racial, and social views that were affecting the people of color. Their ability to voice their strong opinions about the injustices that were taking
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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, was born in 1913, and died in 2005. An African American civil rights activist whom is best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. Her action helped bring about the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks was arrested for violating a city law that required the whites and blacks to sit in separate rows on buses. She refused to give up her seat in the middle of the bus when a white man desired to sit in her row. The front
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1969 autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, was nominated for a National Book Award and made her a symbol of pluck and pride for African-American women. In the 1950s Angelou had been a dancer and stage actress, and she was active in the civil rights movement (she became a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, thanks to a request from Martin Luther King, Jr.). During the 1960s she spent five years in Africa, working as a journalist and a teacher. Angelou returned to
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