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I don't want to say who played the most inflential role in the Civil Rights movement...but I will say that I side on the part of Malcolm X. I think this was said before that Malcolm X was a man ahead of his time. He followed in the foot steps of another man ahead of his time, Marcus Garvey, who is one of my heros. Malcolm knew that rights could not be given and that they had to be taken (by any means neccessary), which is somthing that people today don't seem to understand. Also, toward the end of his life Malcolm X was able to tie the struggles of Black Americans to the stuggle of people's of color everywhere. For structures to be broken down today there needs to be a revolution, and not just in the United States but worldwide. The struggles of the Kenyan are intricatly connected to the struggles of the Indian whose struggle is tied to the Colombian who's struggle is tied to the Palestinian (and on and on and on). Of course I cannot sum up the life of a man in my post but those are two in the list of many reasons why I favor Malcolm X. That's just my two cents.
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