For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. When he was born Jan. 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.’s name was Michael. It’s the name originally on his birth certificate. He was named ...
29. Malcolm X, another civil rights leader at the time who called for a more militant approach to achieve equality, met with Martin Luther King, Jr. only one time (in Washington D.C. on March 26 ...
"The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to get Negroes to forgive the people who have brutalized them for 400 years," Malcolm X told an interviewer in 1963. "But the masses of black people in ...