Malcolm X: Civil Rights Leader

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leadership. The Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act formed a legal basis to end the segregation and discrimination that has been happening in the United States. Malcolm X influenced disparate wings of the black movement. King influenced the non-violence act to the younger African-American generation to show them that violence just causes more of a problem. The radical faction of the "Black Power" movement accepted his positions on African identification, neocolonialism, black control of the political economy of black communities, and Afro-American self-defense. He also forced civil rights leaders. The historical importance of Malcolm X cannot be derived from these influences or from the numbers in his organization or his effort to obtain

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