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Question: Explain differing views on how to achieve freedom for African Americans articulated by leaders and activists in the 1960s including the following:

• Martin Luther King Jr and other civil rights activists initially focused most of their efforts on using the legal system to combat segregation, discrimination in public accommodation, and voter suppression. They embraced non-violence as a tactic and cautioned against letting the "new militancy" embraced in black communities led to violence and distrust of whites. They believed that full citizenship rights would advance the black struggle for equality.

• Militant leaders and groups like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther Party addressed self-government, full employment, decent housing, police brutality and murder, capitalism, black incarceration, education that exposed "true" history, land ownership, and other issues affecting the black community. Some embraced violence as a form of self-defense.

• The black community became increasingly militant adopting black power and black nationalist ideologies that emphasized the need to empower black communities because civil rights legislation did not address poverty, unemployment, police brutality, poor housing, and disproportionate incarceration of black men.