Throughout the early 1900s, civil rights activists have been fighting for their equality in a world that doesn’t seem to have any. Malcolm X and the even more influential Mohandas Gandhi are among those who have changed the world forever through acts of nonviolence and non cooperation combined with civil protesting. Without these two, and countless other nameless brave faces, our world would still be stuck in a never ending cycle of unnecessary violence between races and religions.
Born in a household whose religious beliefs supported the practice of self-control and nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi started and ended his life in good nature. Moving away from home at only 19 years old, he began to study law in London. After moving around and finding…show more content… Becoming more popular and rising to fame at an impressive rate, Malcolm was sharing his teachings through papers, radios, and speeches in the streets, gaining new members of Islam every day. Though Malcolm was trying to do good by spreading his religious beliefs with the public, the FBI was starting to get uneasy with how popular the Nation of Islam was growing. They began to work their way in, acting as friends and members in order to place listening devices and cameras in order to keep watch on him and his family. (Malcolm X Biography…show more content… Telling people to fight “by any means necessary” (History.com Staff) in order to get their rights. Police and local citizens would constantly try to stop the African American population from living the lives they deserved, and Malcolm did not stand for that. He started using the philosophy of noncooperation. Unlike nonviolence, noncooperation was to make a point of doing whatever it was that the other side didn’t want. By protesting peacefully and never giving in, Malcolm X and his followers were responsible for an overwhelming amount of the civil rights movement. Living as a hero, he would soon also come to face his own fate. During a speech in New York City in 1963, Nation of Islam members stood and shot him, ending his life. (History.com
