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... notion; 'fight violence with violence'. He believed that rather than allowing the continual persecution of African Americans by whites, it was rational for African Americans to defend themselves with as much force as was necessary as advocated in his 'by any means necessary'8 speech. This caused much tension between the two distinct civil rights movements because it contrasted with the methods of nonviolence9 and integration10 advocated by other Civil Rights leaders such as King and the SCLC11. The BPM can lend much of its ideologies to the early ideas of Malcolm X and his militant approach. Black Power grew from the unrest in Northern cities that had not been tackled by other Civil Rights leaders - only Southern, de facto segregation was an aim. King, a Southerner himself, had been involved in Civil Rights issues, primarily in the South, such as removing racial discrimination in states such as Georgia, Alabama and ...