During the 1960's there were numerous important African Americans that were leading social rights movements. Also, this was the decade where most of the stopped with their activity, some because of natural death, while some because they got assassinated. Martin Luther King Jr is the most famous and probably the most important of these leaders of social rights movements. He was not a man that called for aggression, but instead wanted everything to be sorted out in a peaceful and civilized manner, and the African Americans to get their rights. W.E.B. Dubois was also a very important figure, though he had his moments in both the more peaceful propagating and the more violent one. Malcolm X was a great intellectual, but unfortunately, he became part of an extremist organization which was propagating violence in order to get to the required rights. W.E.B. Dubois died of natural causes, while Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were assassinated.
