(253) X believed that revolution could not be accomplished without bloodshed. The only kind of revolution that is nonviolent is the Negro revolution”. He writes, “There’s no such thing as a non-violent revolution. had not been one of the civil rights leaders the civil rights movement would not have advanced as much as it did.įorce certainly was not a way for blacks to receive equality however, Malcolm x, a Black Muslim extremist believed that black should act with violence to get what they wanted and to become equal. however, made the greatest impact on the civil rights movement by taking the middle road. Bayard Rustin took the complete opposite side, the political side and appealed only to people’s reason, contending that violence was not needed but instead peace and argumentation would solve their problems. Malcolm X took the extremist side and appealed only to emotions of people, telling them to fight for their rights. Activist believed in different ways of advancing civil rights. all fought not only for civil rights reforms, but also reimbursement for the economic, political, and cultural oppression of the past. Black activists such as Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Prominent African American individuals led this movement and sacrificed their lives for the cause of equality. Through years of nonviolent direct action protests, blacks finally received equal rights legislation. However, these civil rights were weakly enforced and African Americans were treated poorly and segregated from whites in all sectors of the public. After the Civil War, slavery ended and slaves were given civil rights through the 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution. The civil rights movement was an American movement from the mid 1950’s to the mid 1960’s aimed at eliminating racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States.
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