What is the difference between Obama and Martin Luther King jr?

Answer 1

Booker T. Washington stressed economic liberation while Martin Luther King, Jr. stressed political liberation. Since Booker T. Washington did not actively oppose the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws, he was embraced by Segregationist Whites and, correspondingly, reviled by many Blacks.

Answer 2

Martin Luther King was a powerful black man in America, and Gandhi was a fragile yet powerful Indian man in India


Gandhi looked for peace between everybody and to stop war. The king was trying to stop segregation and discrimination between the black race and the white man in America
Gandhi was a non violence protester and Martin Luther King was not.

Answer 3

Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader who lived during the era when society began to be more accepting of equal rights for black people. He was assassinated in 1968, but his famous "I Have a Dream" speech is widely remembered as an iconic moment in the fight for civil rights. Barack Obama was born in 1961, so he was just a child when Martin Luther King was fighting for racial equality. By the time Barack Obama was in high school, America was no longer segregated, black students could attend any college, and there were many more opportunities for black people than in Martin Luther King's day. So Barack Obama did not have to go through the same struggles that Martin Luther King did. In fact, Mr. Obama has said that Martin Luther King is someone he admires and considers a role model.

Also, Martin Luther King Jr. had no inclination to become a politician.

Answer 4

Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader who lived during the era when society began to be more accepting of equal rights for black people. He was assassinated in 1968, but his famous "I Have a Dream" speech is widely remembered as an iconic moment in the fight for civil rights. Barack Obama was born in 1961, so he was just a child when Martin Luther King was fighting for racial equality. By the time Barack Obama was in high school, America was no longer segregated, black students could attend any college, and there were many more opportunities for black people than in Martin Luther King's day. So Barack Obama did not have to go through the same struggles that Martin Luther King did. But Mr. Obama has not forgotten what Martin Luther King accomplished, and he knows he is among the next generation to benefit from the civil rights movement. He has said that Dr. King is someone he admires and considers a role model.

Answer 5

Frederick Douglass was a former slave who began working for the abolition movement and published the North Star newspaper. Booker T. Washington was an abolitionist who fought for the advancement of African-Americans.

Answer 6

Martin Luther King Jr and Booker T Washington were similar in many ways. One way is that they were both African American leaders who wanted equal rights for men.