The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s marked a great change in race relations in the United States of America, which had practiced legalized segregation or apartheid until the passage of the Civil Rights Amendment. Two seemingly opposite Civil Rights leaders who brought about this tremendous social change were Martin Luther King Jr., the southern Christian, and Malcolm X, the northern Muslim. Both were African-American icons who had different views on religion, segregation and civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who embraced the brotherhood of all races and beliefs, while Malcolm X preached voluntary separation had a negative view of whites. After his pilgrimage to the Islamic Holy City of Mecca, Malcolm X recanted his positio
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