While in the Middle East, he learned that different people could live in harmony and his rhetoric would become unifying, although it could be argued that the change began with his delivery of "The Ball or the Bullet. A few months after the speech, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing discrimination. Most of the credit for the turning point goes to Martin Luther King Jr. and his associates for having orchestrated the March on Washington. 315 days after delivering “The Ballot or the Bullet” in Detroit, Malcolm “The vote or the bullet” serves as a rallying cry for all populations in need, reminding them of their personal responsibility to improve their living conditions rather than wait for assistance as leader of the Organization for African American Unity. In the same room where his life ended, Malcolm of African Americans