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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are both two men who were fighting for the same rights. Although they were fighting for the same rights, they had different views on segregation. The lives of these two civil rights leaders were the same, but they were also very different. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born into a Baptist family in 1929. Both his father and grandfather were Baptist ministers, so he followed in their footsteps. King was the leader of a boycott of buses after a black woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white woman. About a year after the boycott started, the United States Supreme Court forbid segregated seating on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. What started King’s career in the civil rights movement was