Malcolm Little and Langston Hughes

After reading "hair" by Malcolm Little and "poem for English B" by Langston Hughes one can make a comparison and a contrast between the two writers. Both these men are writers who were black during a time in U.S history where blacks were not viewed as equal to the whites. they seemed to both be highly aware of the situation that they're in and are trying to deal with the hardship that comes in a time like this. they both are trying to get the publics attention to this so that it can be fought by a larger group of people. where they differentiate is in style, time and reaction. the time in which Langston writes his poetry is as it happens. He would have an experience and get home and start writing about it. Malcolm, however , only writes his stories later in life and not as poetry but as a memoir of events that happened to him during those times. Another way they differ is in their type and style of writing. Langston uses poetry to convey his thoughts and by looking at how he writes it comes off as aggressive, as if he's trying to fight the opinion and change the mindset of the whites. Malcolm writes stories as memoirs and is using it to rather gain sympathy for is actions and show how truly wrong it was to do what they did to make him try to become them. and lastly their reactions to the time. Langston seemed more of  a fighter and would fight for his rights and would use the written word in order to get his point across. Malcolm was more of a conformist and would rather try to become more like them, even if it didn't work.