and purpose as a people by appealing to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, or even the white man's religion of Christianity. On the contrary, nationalists define their identity by their resistance to America and their determination to create a society based on their own African history and culture (9).
Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, and Malcolm X would become the leader and icon of the Black Nationalist movement as spokesperson for the Nation of Islam. He was a minister for the National of Islam and preached a message of black nationhood that appealed to a far broader audience. He saw separatism as se
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