Different Approaches of King & Malcolm X

African-Americans have undertaken a number of political responses to their place in American society and to correcting injustices in the divisions between black and white society. Black nationalism emerged as one response to the desire to escape from the confines of a racist society. Black nationalism has a long history as a political movement, with varying impact at different points in American history. Black nationalism had a major resurgence in the 1960s when a large number of black organizations were formed. This tendency to organize was a new political phenomenon for blacks, at least at this level, and the new organizations were more successful than the older ones in prov

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America as well: More than any other American of his time, King embodied the best in the Christian religion. But the best in Christianity was not good enough for Malcolm's religious needs, because Christianity was still too closely identified with the "white man's culture." He had to have a black religion, one that could restore his wounded self-image and connect him with his African roots (150). King was not accepted right way, and indeed in the early 1960s he was frustrated by the fact that his appeals fell on deaf ears even among the white clergy. Cone shows how King tried to break through the reservations of the white church leaders right up until he wrote his "Letter" which would enable him to reach a new audience: White America was ready to hear King and he was ready to give them the "Word from on High," as they say in the black church. Despite the opposition of southern religious leaders, King persuaded many white northern ministers that segregation was a denial of the gospel (139). King's message was more consistent over time than was Malcolm's, and this may also have contributed to the degree to which white Americans accepted each. King taught non-violence and civil disobedience from the first, but Malcolm X ca
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