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This 8 page paper looks at the life and works of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. How they viewed manhood and how it is related to civil rights is the focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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on, Karl Marx was a strong supporter of the idea that violence may be necessary in order to effect political action and throughout history, even before Marxs time, there were
such ideas. The storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution is one example. Fast forward to the 1960s, to the United States, and one sees that changes have been
taking place. The time period was also known as the Civil Rights Era and while Dr. King was a major influence, on the other side fighting for the same causes
were men such as Malcolm X and Black Panther leaders Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. Their philosophical theories of political violence also prompted changes, but largely it ended many
in jail. Although ironically, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King died in a similar fashion, largely for the same reasons, their ideas about effecting change could not have been more
different. Still, they were black men fighting for the same cause and they both seem to view black manhood in a similar fashion as well. Although it is obvious that
both men fought for civil rights, what is perhaps not as obvious is that the concept of black manhood is inextricable with that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. That is not an obvious point and seems little to do with the definition of manhood.
Yet, manhood to some extent is equated with being true to a cause and being strong. Manhood is equated with a lot of things from ones sexual nature to being
a man in the psychological and social sense. Everyone realizes that to King, civil disobedience is a way to accomplish the acquisition of rights. Eventually, he thought, the black
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