What connection did the American civil rights movement have to the struggles for human rights in other areas of the world? Consider* * what...

One of the
most underrated aspects of the Civil Rights Movement was its presentation of a paradigm in a
globalized manner.  Many of the activists who fought for rights at home were not afraid to bring
the issue into a worldwide frame of reference.  When Malcolm X goes to Mecca and comes back as
El Hajj Malik el Shabazz, he is quite vocal in attempting to bring the issue of rights for all
people of color as a worldwide struggle.  Moments like these helped to feed the drive for
independence in a post- Colonial world that was present at the time.  The Vietnam War was cast
as a conflict between the ruling race over other people of color.  Part of this was present in
the roots of the Civil Rights Movement, when Dr. King appropriated the Gandhian tactics of civil
disobedience in trying to reach out to appeal to a moral sense of indignation at discrimination
and the practices of racism.