American Civil Rights Leaders: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X

American Civil Rights Leaders There are many leaders who promoted equality for African- Americans. Two most notable leaders of the Civil Rights Movement include Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The civil rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation, the system of laws …

…in the United States of America. They fought for racial equality through various methods, such as passive resistance and preaching self-respect to African-Americans. China unlike the United States lacked Civil Rights leaders due to the fact that they were a communist nation and they were going through a Cultural Revolution. The Civil Rights movements were a major part of the 1960's, and leaders such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, made this movements possible.