Malcom X

Malcom X's speech the Ballot or the Bullet serves an as a call to arms to the African-American community. I thought that it was very similar to the letter Martin Luther King wrote in the Memphis jail. Malcom X is discussing many of the issues that were prevelent during that time. Blacks were treated disgustingly by many whites, and most if not all of their complaints fell on deaf ears. I think that leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the people who really created the sixties as an era for counterculture. The blacks were fighting for rights they should have always had andi think that it woke other people up to look at some of the absurd things that were going on in the country. They realize how little control they had over decisions and decided it was time to get that control.