Malcolm X emphasizes the worth of voting as a solution to ending discrimination against Blacks.
That summer, black and brown Americans in cities across the country took to the streets in confrontations with the racist police that oppressed their neighborhoods. 235-236 in this volume. We see free speech limited to special zones, increasing poverty, and the blatant purchase of elections by the richest few. Education Radio: Malcolm X's "The Ballot or The Bullet" Right now, in this country, if you and I, 22 million African-Americans In the spirit of learning from our histories and fully engaging this essential question, Education Radio offers Malcolm X's speech " The Ballot or the Bullet." Annotation: In this speech Malcolm X described how Blacks should fight for civil-rights in America. x��][��q������m�����H.��ě)���3$V��3�N�gf�kI�4n�����SYT�������//���������ϧ/�?�>����X4�?����������ɑyp}Q�4���[u���Sw�ˢO^^|}���k��:qy�+ʡ���^�U���q���Ӫ��-Z�\��\�ƺ���=uCY���+����|YM?���.ˢ����ί��}[
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K He was right about that. THE BAllOT OR THE BULLET 23 April 3, 1964, Cleveland THE BLACK REVOLUTION 45 April 8, 1964, New York City LETTERS FROM ABROAD 58 April 20, 1964, Jedda, Saudi Arabia May 10, 1964, lagos, Nigeria May 11, 1964, Accra, Ghana THE HARLEM "HATE-GANG" SCARE 64 May 29, 1964, New York City APPEAL TO AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE 72 July 17, 1964, Cairo, Egypt AT THE AUDUBON 88 December 13, … The violence of the police state against poor, black and brown people is as bad as it was in 1964, with stop and frisk laws, high surveillance, and the mechanisms of the war on drugs incarcerating black men at 7x the rate of white men.
It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.” ― Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet. He then goes on to state that if this is not enough they may have to resort to violence.
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In July of that year President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. We stand again at a critical juncture in our history, where we know change is necessary for any chance of freedom and justice, and we must decide how to work toward that change.