Civil rights has been a very harsh and long fight for those condemned to the title of Black, colored, or negro. Slavery in our country dates back all the way to 1619, where Africans were sold from Africa, to help colonize the new Americas’. Slavery then continued throughout the centuries, until those who were slaves, rose up against the unethical view on slavery. With this, certain people began to push against the ‘lost’ civil rights of the colored people. Two of these people include the well-known civil rights activist and as well as the well-known Stokely Carmichael. Both of these men voiced their opinions through various speeches and protests in which they put their view with the new civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote “I …show more content…
Stokely Carmichael was a black civil rights activist, who gave his speech, “Black Power” on the twenty-ninth of October, 1966 to other civil rights activists on the basis of black power, or black rights. Carmichael's tone for this speech is most noticeably empowering, and thought-provoking. Carmichael’s main use in his speech was his choice of diction. He created a vast majority of degrading words towards those who were white, such as, “That failure is due to the white’s incapacity to deal with their own problems inside their own communities.” Here, Carmichael is degrading the white population, in which they can not deal with their own problems. Although Carmichael uses many more of these negative statements, he also relies on the use of logos in his speech. “In order to escape that oppression we must wield the group power we have, not the individual power that this country sets as the criterion under which a man may come into it. That’s what is called integration.” and “A man is born free. You may enslave a man after he is born free... The only thing white people can do is stop denying black people their freedom.” These are both examples of Carmichaels use of logos, to convince his audience the need for black rights. Since his audience is mainly colored, The logistical side of this connects with them, as they understand and believe this is how colors are treated, creating a very influential and empowering speech for
Do you ever think what Martin Luther King Jr. has expressed in his writings? The speech “I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. attracted a huge crowd of people at The Lincoln Memorial for the march on Washington. In addition to his speech Martin Luther King Jr. also wrote “ The Letter from Birmingham Jail” because he was in jail and he wrote it to 8 white clergymen. King uses logos and pathos in his letter and his speech to appeal his audiences.
The author reveals that all of these diverse components fit into one extensive civil rights struggle of the North, even if they do not establish one vast continuous movement from the 1920s to the 1970s. Through a number of narratives that remain untold, partly stated, distorted, and misunderstood due to context, Sugrue illustrates that both the North and the South agonized through the same difficulties and the same battles. Equality in the North was not guilelessly and compassionately provided by white Northerners. The struggles that black Americans in the North endured and the shape of their protests were consistently molded by community circumstances and community
Both of them have rhetorical strategies in their text which made both their arguments more persuasive when talking to their audience. Thomas Jefferson's text had a lot of logic when it came to the reason why people needed to fight harder for their freedom unless they wanted it to be taken away. Martin Luther King's text however had emotion and he protested in a non violent manner which indicated to people that he only wanted to solve the problem they were having in a peaceful way without fights. His speech even influenced the government to focus more on racial equality and made congress move faster in passing the Civil Rights
Both speakers wanted blacks to be able to work to make money to provide for themselves without having to rely on white people for money. Martin Luther King, Jr's speech said a lot about relying on whites for money. In the first Reading Passage, Martin Luther King Jr said; "This is nonviolence at its peak of power when it cuts into the profit margin of a business to bring about a more just distribution of jobs and opportunities for Negro wage earners and consumers. " This quote is saying that their peaceful tactics and it was very effective. This is only one of the many quotes that support this.
In the 1960s the African Americans were freed, but did they really have all the rights they were promised? Racial conflicts were everywhere. Lyndon B. Johnson was current president and was trying to encourage congress to pass a bill called The Voting Rights Act. To influence the vote he gave the speech “We Shall Overcome.” In “We Shall Overcome” President Lyndon Johnson used ethos, pathos, logos, and other rhetorical devices such as allusions, repetition and appeals to authority to persuade congress to pass the act.
The first three chapters of the reading, The Struggle for Black Equality, Harvard Sitkoff runs through the civil rights movement in the 20th century; outlining the adversities facing black people, the resistance to black equality, hindrances to the already progress and the achievements made in the journey for civil rights. John Hope Franklin, in the foreword, dwells on the impact of the time between 1954 and 1992 and the impact it had on American Society, how fight for equality is far from easy and patience is required in the fight to "eliminate the road blocks that prevent the realization of the ideal of equality". In the preface, Sitkoff is clear that that history does not speak for themselves and attempt to detail any particular will be influenced by the author 's personal beliefs. Sitkoff, who associated and identified with the movement, believed "that the struggle was confronting the United States with an issue that had undermined the nation 's democratic institutions". Sitkoff elected
Racism in America has been around for centuries however it was in the 1960's that the attitudes of many Black Americans started to quickly change and they realized they wanted equality. Out of this, The Civil Rights Movement emerged which was a peaceful social movement that strove for equal human rights for black Americans. The leader of the Civil Rights Movement is no one other than Martin Luther King Jr. In his book, Why We Can't Wait, King tries to convince Black Americans to realize their reality, remember their roots and important and mainly, to seek changes to social conditions and attitudes.
The speech identifies the struggles African Americans faced due to discrimination, hence allowing readers insight into African American lives. The speech is inspirational and powerful due to the speaker exhibiting to the audience his anger regarding
He briefly addresses the issues he finds with racism, and focusing on the important main goal of unity in America. Obama stated many things in his speech, which Clark states related to four rhetorical strategies: The power of allusion, parallelism, the “two-ness” of texture, and autobiography. Therefore, making his speech very influential to Obama getting his point across. Before analyzing Obama’s speech, Clark stated a very famous paragraph that was written by W.E.B DuBois.
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, he continued to help the audience see the importance of a non-violent approach to fighting against segregation and for equality. Martin shows us this by using allusion and symbolism to further prove his points. When using allusion, King quotes, “And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together…” from the Bible. By using this quote, Luther can be inferencing many things. For example, the lamb is seen to coward down to the lion seeing as the lion at the top of the food chain, he can be comparing the oppressed to the lamb and the oppressor to the lion because it’s all the time that the person being oppressed stays quiet and takes it all in.
Devinn Francis Introduction:Stokely Carmichael was a civil activist and one of the youngest imprisoned for his participation and work with the freedom writers. On October 29th, 1966 he gave a speech called “Black Power”. During this time whites and blacks were segregated so there were many American civil right movements going on. His main purpose for giving the speech was to persuade and encourage blacks to protest against segregation. He wanted whites to understand that it was unfair to be treated differently because of the difference in their skin color.
Imagine living in a world of segregation - constantly judged by color of one’s skin and not being permitted to associate with the “superior” race. From slavery to discrimination, African-Americans experienced this horror in daily life since the beginning of their existence. Due to the fear of severe punishment, blacks were scared to fight for equality; however, on April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio, one brave soul finally did. His name was Malcolm Little (known as Malcolm X), a widely acknowledged human rights activist. Although he supported black equality, he attacked the problem unlike others such as Martin Luther King Jr. did.
Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most influential African-American activists in American History and was a key participant in the Civil Rights movement, the goal of which was to provide full civil rights to all rights in America. MLK has written many, many speeches and letters in favor of the Civil Rights movement in America, the most famous of them being his legendary “I Have a Dream” Speech and the monumental “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. To attempt to gain support for his cause, MLK employs the use of emotional appeals, also known as pathos, and logical appeals, also known as logos, which aid to stir emotion and reasoning in the listener. It is more than obvious that MLK tends to tug at the heartstrings of his listeners with his emotionally charged language essential to his success. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses more powerful and plentiful examples of pathos in his literature, examples of which being his “I Have a Dream” speech and his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, than logos due to the more powerful emotional connection they carry which can convince his listeners to sympathize with his civil rights movement.
In Martin Luther King’s famous speech, King argued for freedom of African Americans by using metaphors to illustrate the serious effects and tolerance of discrimination in society. To motivate the public to take action, King created a scenario on how the Africans were treated amongst their white peers. “ the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity” Moreover, King used a metaphor to highlight the ignorance of African Americans by representing their isolation as an “island of poverty”. In addition, he represented the white people’s capability of wealth in the perspective of an African American as being “in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity”. In other words, the effects of
Both lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King's “I have a dream” speech are similar in that they both express the concept of freedom to achieve their purpose. However, they each have different ideas about freedom, and about what they want their audience to do. Both influential speeches rely heavily on rhetorical devices to convey their purpose. In King’s speech, the use of sensory and visceral language is abundant, creating an emotional and powerful atmosphere. “Manacles of discrimination,” “Lonely island of poverty” and “Chains of discrimination” paint a bleak picture of life as a minority in America, and contrasts phrases such as “Bright day of justice” and “Sacred obligation” which symbolize freedom.