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Non-violence to Black Power
Civil Rights Protest in the 1960s – Changing Ideologies
“Non-violent is another word for defenceless”
Malcolm X
•Although segregation
and discrimination was
being challenged in the
South, the inner city
ghettos continued to
suffer from poverty and
unemployment.
•America’s cities saw
serious rioting in the
late 1960s.
Watts Riot, 1965
•Many black groups
became frustrated with
the lack of progress and
used new ways of
protesting.
Non-violent protest was beginning to give way to
violent protest.
“We must hear the words of
Jesus when he said ‘Love
your enemies’. We must
protest bravely and yet with
dignity.”
Martin Luther King
“I don’t go along with any
kind of non-violence
unless everybody’s going
to be non-violent.”
Malcolm X
•The Nation of Islam believed that blacks should
keep themselves separate from whites and set up
their own schools, shops, businesses and churches.
•They wanted a separate black nation on land to be
given to them by the USA.
Elijah Muhammed, leader of the Nation of Islam
“We don’t go for desegregation. We go for separation.
Separation is when you have your own. You control
your own economy, you control your own politics, you
control your own society.”
Malcolm X
•Black Muslims replaced their surnames with ‘X’ or
took an Islamic name.
•Aggressive attitudes towards white people meant
that many whites lost sympathy for the civil rights
movement. Malcolm X frequently referred to white
people as “devils”;
“What do you want me to call him, a saint? Anybody
who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals,
and drops hell bombs on people . . . anybody who
does these things is nothing but a devil.”
“The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King,
so that he can continue to teach the Negroes to be
defenseless—that’s what you mean by non-violent—be
defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts
that has ever taken people into captivity.”