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... “Then the renaissance came, times continued to changes nothing stayed the same there were always renegades,” “Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X they were renegades of their time and age”(de la Rocha). Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the two most famous black men in the Civil Rights era of the 1950’s and 1960’s. ...
Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. His original name was Michael King Junior, and when he was only five years old his father changed both their names after the Protestant reformer. King grew up with equality in his blood. ... Since King was exposed to the Du Bois style of the civil rights movement this could be the reason for trying to get the white people to help his cause. ... King’s father was also involved in the civil rights movement. ... When King was in college, at Morehouse University, he decided to follow his father and become a minister (Levy 133). King then started going to Crozer Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister in 1947. ... King moved to Montgomery Alabama. In 1955 King soon after he moved to Montgomery he became the pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (134). This is where King started his career as a social activist. ... Local black leaders then asked King if he would be the new leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). ... After King accepted the job he started to use a peaceful methods of protesting. ... King used this style of nonviolent action because it, “seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue (King 119). ... As the head of the MIA King also had to give speeches for the boycott. ... ” Soon after he took the job at the MIA, King was known nation wide. King took what was supposed to be a short boycott and made it last over a year, even with the constant bomb threats, and the Ku Klux Klan. ...
Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha Nebraska. His original name was Malcolm Little.
Approximate Word count = 1781
Approximate Pages = 7.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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