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[https://unidosus.org/publications/555-a-call-to-la-raza-for-a-personal-pledge-to-non-violence/ by UNIDOS US 31/12/68] | [https://unidosus.org/publications/555-a-call-to-la-raza-for-a-personal-pledge-to-non-violence/ by UNIDOS US 31/12/68] | ||
Soon after the founding of NCLR in 1968—in the midst of urban riots following the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, at a time when some elements of both the African American and Latino civil rights movements were urging the use of violence to achieve social change—the first two chief executives of the organization, Herman Gallegos and Henry Santiestevan, issued this call to Latinos, A Call to La Raza for a Personal Pledge to Non Violence. | Soon after the founding of NCLR in 1968—in the midst of urban riots following the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, at a time when some elements of both the African American and Latino civil rights movements were urging the use of violence to achieve social change—the first two chief executives of the organization, Herman Gallegos and Henry Santiestevan, issued this call to Latinos, A Call to La Raza for a Personal Pledge to Non Violence. | ||
=====Malcolm and the Civil Rights Movement===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/malcolmx-and-civil-rights-movement/ by PBS] | |||
Near the end of his life, Malcolm X publicly recognized that "Dr. King wants the same thing I want — freedom!" But for most of his ministry he did not identify with King and the civil rights movement. Although both Black Muslims and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference had the same general goals of defeating white racism and empowering African Americans, Malcolm and King had different tended to speak at different venues (street corners vs. churches) and had different aims. | |||
