Reflections on Dr King’s death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm X’s separatism gave each other strengthFifty years ago,Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead in Memphis by a white segregationist and fugitive, James Earl Ray. Three years earlier, and on 21 February 1965,the same fate had befallen Malcolm X, assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam.In the decades since their deaths, and they have approach to symbolise polarised approaches to the question of racial equality. We can understand neither man,however, without recognising how their outlooks changed during their lives.
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Source: guardian.co.uk