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...accurate description of the condition of Black life in America, a cover of the rage and desperation of Black people. It was then the tearing of this veil in the mid-1950's that we see with the two movements led by Martin Luther King and the radical activist Malcolm X. A comparison of the two movements will set King's contribution more clearly in relief. A great deal had changed since DuBois' observations...
...rebellion sought separation from the larger society. The separation might well be temporary, and have as its goal the gaining of personal and political strength as an intermediate step on the way toward equality or equity or integration. The separatist approach might also be an end in itself. Malcolm X and his teacher, Elijah Muhammad, believed in theory at least, that total separatism was the ultimate goal of their Black nationalist movement. Malcolm X was to modify this view toward the end of his career...
Martin Luther King saw Black history as the record of suffering, endurance, and change. It was a history of courage and of restraint. Malcolm X presented Black history as the terrible epic of constant war between Black and white. It was a history of conflict. King had accepted Hegel's view of history, namely, that there was a dialectical process of progress and growth through pain. But the dialectical idea for King, the notion of struggle, was also taken over from Gandhi and Thoreau, especially from the latter's essay on Civil Disobedience. King believed in struggle, in a kind...
...Malcolm X's view of history emphasized the special nature of the Black experience and the relevance of the past. He did not present a lesson to draw from it for whites in the nation. He spoke only to the Blacks, and for them. Instead of emphasizing the role of the leader. Malcolm X emphasized the role of the people themselves, he tried to say what they would have said and in the way they would have said it. It was Malcolm X's idea of Black history and the attractiveness of the tone in which he spoke that drew...
...significant difference in approach between King and Malcolm X was the question of means and ends. Malcolm X argued that Blacks should demand and capture their separatist solution by any means necessary. And although we have no example that Malcolm X used violence himself, this strategy was taken up by groups that counted themselves in his constituency. Martin Luther King thought the question of means and ends quite central to the success of any movement for change because, he argued, in bringing about changes, one must consider the kind and quality of relationships and institutions that replace the old ways...