American CIvil Rights
Title: American CIvil Rights
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1494 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
American CIvil Rights
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1494 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Civil rights
Land of the Free, The United States was founded on the principles of freedom and democracy. But the failure of our founding fathers to expel the racist nature of our society. This nature led to the American Civil War, and the Black American Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. Oppressed nation wide, African-Americans needed leaders for their struggle for true equality. These leaders were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Though
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Luther King, Jr. apart from Malcolm X and countless other Civil Rights Activists. The fact that he not only preached nonviolent obstruction to American racism, which appealed to mainstream white America, but he did so on an international level, and kept his composure while doing it. In the end, the persistence of Malcolm X in his embrace of violence is what kept him from the largest accomplishment achieved by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martyrdom.