The two leaders met briefly while both were at the Capitol during the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act. Their only face-to-face meeting was cordial but brief; it did not erase their strategic differences. The photograph and contemporary record invite a more complex account than the later story that Black liberation required choosing between King's nonviolent mass movement and Malcolm's advocacy of self-defense.
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What does the March 26 meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. show?
Malcolm and Martin Luther King Jr. met repeatedly and became close political partners in 1964.
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They met only once, briefly, at the Capitol, though practical cooperation was possible.