Which civil rights leases were both assasinted in the 1960s

The civil rights leaders who were both assassinated in the 1960s are Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in New York City.
• Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

While Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and Huey Newton were prominent figures in the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement, neither was assassinated.