The movement really got underway with civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X in the early 1960's. Students who wanted to jump on the equality and protest bandwagon quickly followed. Most of the students went to the southern states (Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana) to try and stop the racism and hate crimes.

The truth of the matter is that the violence and hatred would get worse before it got better. Even though the Negroes had very few rights they were not assaulted and abused nearly as much as when the college kids came and started to 'help' them. Then the Klan became stronger and more violent committing many more lynchings and hangings. But gradually most of the whites came around to the idea of integration, and did not see the blacks as a 'threat' anymore.

The only reason that this great and monumental change occurred was because of the great leadership of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, not to mention the 1,000's of other less famous civil rights leaders, that worked to change the views of their community. Also there w

ere lobbyists and protesters that risked their lives and went out on a limb to fight against injustice. All these factors, put together, made one of the biggest changes in the twentieth Century.

The Martin Luther King Jr article on Encarta '98 is an overview of his life and achievements. It pays special attention to his 'I have a dream' speech. It has quotes such as 'I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of it's creed.' It also has quite a bit of background to the speech explaining what he wanted for America. King's assassination is also covered with details about the FBI's spying on him and what he had done for society in general. The text is purely factual, slightly similar to 'Rosa Parks' and 'Malcolm X'

In my essay I plan to compare the differences of opinion between the six writers and directors etc. towards racism and the civil rights movement in the 1960's.

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