ing he had hoped to achieve eventually) but as deserving to be disrupted if not broken, in order to achieve some racial equality. In other words, Malcolm X, for the most part, could be considered a radical, while King was more of a moderate, willing to work within the system whenever possible.
However, both men seemed to agree that the laws, as constituted by the early Sixties were patently unfair to the African-Americans, but while King worked within much of the legal system to overturn the wrongs, Malcolm was angrier and therefore more willing (so it seems) to cause a revolution. The two men did not like one another. "Martin saw Malcolm's murder as a symptom of the kind of conflict that was not only undermining African-American political life but also newly independent African nations, such as the Congo. 'The American Negro cannot af
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