Essays on Malcolm X

While comparing the letters of King and Malcolm X there have been different writing styles in which the letters have been written. King wrote his letter in 1963 while Malcolm X in 1964. King addressed a specific group of people while Malcolm X addressed almost…

In the years from 1954 to 1968, The Civil Rights Movement was a march for social activism where African Americans united together from the South to protest for integration between whites and African Americans. Civil Rights protestors had spread all over the nation taking place…

Malcolm X was an activist and leader of the Black Muslim Faith. When he was little he changed his last name to X to represent his slave name. Malcolm X became a leader for the Nation of Islam which represents both Black and Islam Culture…

African Americans didn’t have political say for a long time, but they were still expected to pay taxes and contribute to the economy. The 15th Amendment “prohibited the use of race as a qualification for the suffrage” (Foner), when the Amendment was passed, white supremacy…

In Malcolm X’s autobiography, he shows the prevalent ideas and norms of his generation through his struggle of fitting into a “hip” and more modern society, to the race shocks he encounters in Boston, to trying to gain respectability in a sphere where who you…

Malcolm X once stated “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of masses. ” (BrainyQuote. com)The media has created issues and…

Ethnic and social discrimination corresponds to further concepts of judgment, and is a consequence in our history and human nature. Ethnic discrimination was not only the basis of a continuing problem, but has become a never ending spiral of contradicting morals and statements. The statement…

Academic Analysis: “Learning to Read” Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. He believed that blacks deserved to be the leading race and did not condemn the civil rights movement. Instead, Malcolm X believed in black supremacy, not integration. He…

Saving Grace Author and journalist, Alex Haley, in his excerpt from “ The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, exhibits the life of how Malcolm became literate, along with what he learned due to the aftermath of learning to read and write. Haley’s purpose is to not…

The purpose of my paper is to give more information on Malcolm X’s life and legacy. He was the driving force behind the black power movement in the 1960’s and his teachings set the ball rolling for the black power movement. He advocated for blacks…