Fight For Tomorrow

This thesis compares the non-violent approach led by Martin Luther King Jr. to the violent approach led by Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali and proves the strategic significance of the latter to the success of the 20th century Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The thesis shows that violence was not only key in the success of non-violence, but also that the three actors were increasingly connected and shifted towards aligning with each others goal at the very end of the movement. MLK by radicalizing in his pressure on the government, and X and Ali by deradicalizing and becoming more accepting of the idea of integration of the non-violent approach.