HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Question
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Malcolm X believed African Americans should rely on the laws to help achieve equality.
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Malcolm X believed that African Americans should rely on themselves to achieve equal rights.
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Malcolm X did not want equal rights for African Americans.
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Malcolm X believed that African Americans should rely on violence to achieve equal rights.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) while serving a prison term in Massachusetts on burglary charges. Shortly after his release in 1952, he moved to Chicago and became a minister under Elijah Muhammad, abandoning his “slave name, ‘’ and becoming Malcolm X (Malcolm X, “We Are Rising”).
Detailed explanation-2: -Malcolm X, originally Malcolm Little, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After moving to the Midwest with his family at a young age, he suffered great tragedy with the alleged suicide of his father and the subsequent institutionalization of his mother.
Detailed explanation-3: -*He is credited with raising the self-esteem of black Americans and reconnecting them with their African heritage. *He labeled Martin Luther King Jr. a “chump” and other civil rights leaders “stooges” of the white establishment.
Detailed explanation-4: -He advocated for peaceful approaches to some of society’s biggest problems. He organized a number of marches and protests and was a key figure in the American civil rights movement. He was instrumental in the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the March on Washington.