Ballot

Rights Movement gave birth to a large amount of preachers and orators, attempting to inspire change in a nation. One of those such people was Malcolm X, an aggressive revolutionist who took over the movement through fiery rhetoric. In his speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” he uses mostly his own opinions, beliefs, and emotions on the experiences at hand, rather than logic and reasoning to convince the audience that there needs to be a change in the way African Americans are treated in the…

On April 3, 1964 Malcolm X gave a speech titled “The Ballot or the Bullet” in front of a crowd inside of Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland Ohio. The speech mainly focused on spreading his ideals of Black Nationalism to the multitude of people who listened to him. While he begins his speech by saying that he is not here to spread his religious ideals as that would only cause problems, he does still attempt to spread his political ideals: “So I say, in spreading a gospel such as black…

On April 3, 1964, Malcolm X delivered a speech that would drastically influence change in the course of the civil rights movement. The Ballot or the Bullet was delivered at a time when African-American outrage was at its peak. 1964 was a year that involved African-Americans being brutalized by white police officers, discriminated against by white business owners, and hated by the white community at large. 1964 followed the year in which the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing resulted death of…

On April 3, 1964, human rights activist Malcolm X gave the speech “The Ballot or the Bullet.” The speech was delivered in a time of political upheaval, when discussions of racial equality and integration between white and black people were becoming popularized and increasing in frequency. Malcolm X himself suffered much turmoil leading up to the speech; after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, refusing to give condolences to the Kennedy family…

King in his interpretation of the American Dream, there are some who disagree with his values of peace. Malcolm X another civil right advocate is one of the main opponents of Dr. King’s methodology. In the speech “The Ballot or the Bullet,” Malcolm takes the opposite approach to dealing with the noble lie that is the American Dream. After being lied to for so long Malcolm X preaches the philosophy of Black Nationalism to his audience. Black Nationalism is “the political…

In "The Ballot or the Bullet" Malcolm X said that " Those big Negros didn’t need big jobs, they already had jobs." Malcolm acting upon years of torment and being ridiculed finally standing up for something he believes in. Walter, in A Raisin in the Sun, is tired of working for the same people, wants something better, something that doesn’t involve working for the white man. Malcolm fights not only for black rights but also to keep the white man out of the black community. Both men must take on…

To demonstrate, “Malcolm X delivered "The Ballot or the Bullet" to a predominantly African-American meeting in… the Congress of Racial Equality …which was shifting from nonviolent protest to Malcolm X-like black nationalism. Helping provoke this shift were speeches like this one, which was received enthusiastically” (Miller). Many African Americans came to Malcolm’s speech because they really wanted to know what he meant by the “ballot” and “bullet”. By the end of his speech, Malcolm wanted that…

Malcolm X says the ‘’Ballot or the Bullet’’ will come next in the civil rights struggle which means that the government must allow blacks to have the same privileges to vote just as other Americans do, if not violence will be their means to influence the government. Acting violently…

Civil rights activist, Malcolm X, speaks to an audience of African Americans in his 1964 speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet.” Malcolm’s purpose was to increase the numbers in African American voting so that the nation could gain equality. He adopts a persuadable tone in order to make the Negroes act right and wisely. In the speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” the author, Malcolm X, encourages his audience to create equality by trusting the American democracy through the rhetorical elements of…

In this paper, I will provide information on pertinent literature that help create understanding of three themes in Malcolm X’s “The ballot or the bullet”. Those three themes are Black Nationalism, Black voters in the 1960s, and critiques of Malcolm X’s speech. I will begin with Black Nationalism. The first distinctive form of Black Nationalism was the desire to separate from America expressed by some free Blacks in the early part of the nineteenth century (Blake & Cleaver, 1969). The components…