How did Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr work for the civil rights movement?

Answer 1

They both worked for Civil rights but in different ways. Malcolm X was part of a group called Nation of Islam which was part of the Black Power who in turn were considered, by many white people, to be extremist, militant and dangerous to America.

Martin Luther King was the acceptable face of the civil rights movement, a christian minister, and he supported non violent action and campaigns like the march on Washington in the fifties as well as the bus boycott and boycotting of department stores in the South which operated segregation in their rest rooms and restaurants. Unlike the Black Power Movement, Martin Luther King was widely supported by Liberal thinking white Americans.