Malcolm X In The Civil Rights Movement Essay

Plan – Assess Malcolm X’s significance in advancing the civil rights movement from 1955 to 1965

Intro
When it comes to addressing the importance of Malcolm X in the civil rights movement from 1955 to 1965; we need to look at both the significance of his actions and their short term and long term impacts. As well as evaluating his impact we need to make comparisons to other major figures and events at the same time so we can make a relative conclusion of Malcolm’s overall impact. I will also be contrasting some of the key figure heads, events movements and leaders of this time period for the civil rights and their relative effectiveness in forwarding the civil rights movement for African-Americans.

I will discuss Malcolm and his actions in

The way that for Malcolm this recognition advanced civil rights was due to an increased unionised movement and the idea that all blacks shouldn’t just ask kindly for power like Martin Luther King was doing, but too take it by force. The national recognition arguably lead to the formation of the Americans 1960’s “black power movement” (an adaption of Marcus Garvey’s 1920’s idea of black and white segregation.)

In 1961, Elijah Muhammad the head of the NOI made Malcolm national representative of the Nation of Islam; this gave him an extended audience and platform to be able to try and persuade African Americans to take his side in being prepared to use violence if necessary to secure rights for themselves if the whites

Following on from the success in 1960; Malcolm established a newspaper “Muhammad Speaks.” This was to expand the Nation of Islam's message, further adding to circulation of the NOI’s