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"The Ballot or the Bullet" is the title of a public speech by human rights activist Malcolm X.In the speech, which was delivered on two occasions the first being April 3, 1964, at the Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, [1] and the second being on April 12, 1964, at the King Solomon Baptist Church, in Detroit, Michigan, [2] Malcolm X advised African Americans to judiciously exercise ...
Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Aaron Pierre as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in “Genius: MLK/X.” ... With the ongoing Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the two crossed paths ...
The fourth edition of National Geographic’s “Genius” series is essentially a two-for-one proposition, following parallel stories about the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X ...
However, in National Geographic’s outstanding “Genius: MLK/X,” icons and activists Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) and Malcolm X (Aaron Pierre) are portrayed as more than ...
Original - Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, primary figures of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, meeting in Washington D.C. They had both come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Reason Despite its technical shortcomings, the encylopedic value of the image is absolutely exceptional.
Malcolm X's only meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., March 26, 1964, during the Senate debates regarding the (eventual) Civil Rights Act of 1964. [ 149 ] After leaving the Nation of Islam , Malcolm X founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. (MMI), a religious organization, [ 150 ] [ 151 ] and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), a secular group ...
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s was filled with failures. Civil rights activists were assassinated, beaten, betrayed by friends, tortured in jail and disowned by their families.
A proposed "Civil Rights Act of 1966" had collapsed completely because of its fair housing provision. [171] Mondale commented that: A lot of civil rights [legislation] was about making the South behave and taking the teeth from George Wallace, [but] this came right to the neighborhoods across the country. This was civil rights getting personal ...