Finding out lives of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X+ writing a shot obituary for both (sources given)

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Martin Luther Jr. and Malcolm X Obituaries
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights principal born on January 12, 1929 in Atlanta (Holidays.net 1). His parents taught him about treating people with respect which later became an important aspect of the civil right movement. Growing up, King learned that the blacks and whites had different treatment which motivated him in his movement. In his college years, he met Coretta Scott and they later got married. In 1954, King received his Ph.D. and was then on known as Dr. King and appointed the preacher of “Dexter Avenue Baptist Church” in Alabama (Heroes and Villains 1). Dr. King was among the individuals who fought for racial segregation and the importance of ending it in the United States. In 1957, Dr. King was selected the head of the “Southern Christian Leadership Conference” and soon after that year led a mass of people to the Lincoln Memorial and this was when he became the leader of the civil right association. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Tennessee On April 4, 1968, where he was supposed to lead a peaceful protest of workers on low salaries (BBC 1). Dr. King will be remembered for his nonviolent approach to his fight for getting rid of segregation.
Malcolm X was an African American religious leader and human rights activists born on May 19, 1925 (Biography 1). He was the fourth among eight siblings and the family was prone to harassment from white supremacists form when he was born.

However, in 1964, he got arrested for larceny and served 10 years n jail (Biography 1). After his release from prison, he became a leader of the Nation of Islam in Harlem where he believed in the liberation of the black people “by any means possible” (History.com Staff 1). Unlike Martin Luther King Jr. he did not believe in peaceful demonstrations but at 39 years on February 21, 1965, he was shot and died shortly after arriving in the hospital (BBC 1). Malcolm X is remembered for his involvement in the world of emphasis of the truly free population through his extreme demonstrations on human being freedom.
Works Cited
BBC. “1965: Black nationalist leader shot dead” BBC News, 21 Feb. 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/newsid_2752000/2752637.stmBBC. “1968: Martin Luther King shot dead” BBC News, 4 April. 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2453000/2453987.stmBiography. “Malcolm X Biography Civil Rights Activist, Minister (1925–1965)” Biography, 17 Feb. 2018, https://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195Heroes and Villains. “Martin Luther King and the Civil rights movement” The National Archives,17 Feb. 2018, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/heroesvillains/g6/History.com staff. “Malcolm X assassinated” History, 2009, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinatedHolidays.net. “The Story of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Holidays.net., 17 Feb. 2018, http://www.holidays.net/mlk/story.htm