Malcolm X’s voice inspired the people to take a stand in the 1967 Detroit Riots against the Detroit authorities. Malcolm X gave a speech at a rally in Detroit, Michigan on December 10, 1963, while still the leading spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X’s speech described his basic African American nationalist philosophy and established himself as a primary critic of the civil rights movement. This later on inspired African Americans to make a voice for themselves by tearing up and causing another riot in Detroit in 1967. African Americans fought for equality and later on in the future integration was supported and African Americans started having things go their way positively.
“How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Alabama, when your churches are being bombed, and your little girls are being murdered, and at the same time you’re going to violent with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else you don’t even know?” (Message to the Grassroots).
“Back in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was asked to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus by an older Caucasian man but refused to give up her seat” (Montgomery Bus Boycott).
Segregation or housing, schools, and the non hirement of African Americans angered the African Americans which started the riots.