Rhetorical Devices Used In The Civil Rights Movement

Documentary Script: Introduction: [With a visual with Duncan] Narrator: Hey guys! Today we will be talking to you about how the events of the Civil Rights Movement affected the African American culture and society. Background of Civil Rights Movement: [With a visual of Duncan] Narrator: What was the civil rights movement you ask? The civil rights movement was a mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States during the mid- 1950’s.

This speech has a lot of rhetorical devices. We are going to be analyzing calm of value, Logos, and hortative sentence In “We Shall Overcome” Johnson used calm of value. The calm of value is to argue if something is good or bad, right or wrong. In this whole speech former president Johnson is arguing that the Voting Right Act. is a good thing for the US.”All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship, regardless of race, and they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race” and that "All men are created equal.

The Civil Rights Movement of 1954-1968 had been successful to a reasonable extent in terms of bringing about racial equality and social changes as through its many methods of activism, the movement had in some way pushed America forward towards achieving changes of rights for African Americans. The movement for reform was carried out through a variety of separate phases, each of these established in order to achieve a single goal. Racial segregation was a practice that was prevalent within public schools of the southern states of America. The introductory event that led to the Civil Rights Movement was the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

The Civil Rights Movement was a battle that lasted for 14 years from 1954 through 1968. Bryant and his half brother, Milam’s, decision to kill Emmett Till accidently helped people realize just how badly blacks were treated. In addition this sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. The civil rights movement was a movement to secure African Americans rights of U.S. citizenship. EMMETT TILL’S EARLY LIFE

Selene Maldonado Lopez Dr. Brandon Wolfe- Hunnicutt History 3640 27 October 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. vs. Malcom X The Civil Rights Movement was a period of awakening, conflict, and influence. The strength and intensity of the movement was due prominently to the poignant and prophetic discourse of its two most prominent leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. These men helped lead to create a sense of distinctiveness by expressing compacted problems to discourse, direct courses of action, and hope for a future of freedom and equality in America.

The Civil Rights Movement inspired racial harmony between blacks and whites in America. The Movement was led by many leaders and activists. Some of the biggest leaders/activists were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. They both had different philosophies on how to earn freedom and civil rights. The big question is whose philosophy was better in the 1960s. Martin Luther King believed that blacks and whites should join together as one country, but the only way to achieve that was through nonviolence.

The civil rights movements that occurred in the 1960’s changed American Society forever. Some of the most memorable and polarizing movements and laws include Bloody Sunday, the Fair Housing Act, the Freedom Riders and the Montgomery Bus Riots. These are just a few of the demonstrations and laws that occurred during this volatile time period in American History. Many of these events have been have revisited and taught in American History class throughout students’ high school and college years. These events have been archived in annuals of American History and have their place of importance right along with the Bill of Rights and the 19th Amendment that allowed women the vote.

The Different Perspectives of Martin Luther King, Jr, and Malcolm X In the mid-20th century, the Civil Rights movement was created to stop discrimination and set legal rights for people of color. There are many well-known activists who significantly influenced and attributed to the movement; however, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Malcolm X are two of the best known activists that contributed to this campaign. While Malcolm X and Martin Luther King both fought to gain equal rights for African Americans, their methods and opinions varied widely.

Martin Luther King Jr, an African American and Civil Rights Activist in the 1960s, fights to end segregation in his speech "I Have a Dream." He argues that African Americans lack basic rights and change must occur, he achieves this by his use of rhetorical techniques. He supports his claim by declaring that blacks lack basic civil rights that were guaranteed under the constitution, he then talks about the issues blacks face, he goes on to say change is needed, finally he concludes his speech arguing how everyone deserves freedom and must stay faithful that change will occur. Martin Luther King Jr’s purpose is to make segregation cease to exist and to have black and white be seen equally, in order to achieve this purpose he uses loaded words

Danny Lyon is a New York City based photographer who was heavily involved in the civil-rights movement. According to Vince Aletti from The New Yorker magazine, Lyon ended up in a Georgia jail in 1962, with Martin Luther King, Jr., in a nearby cell. A year later, he was given the opportunity to become the staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Lyon had a passion for social change so he fully immersed himself in the cultures and communities he documented. Throughout the period of the civil-rights movement, he recorded marches, sit-ins, arrests, and the aftermath of bombings.

The Civil Rights movement's goal was to attain equality throughout society with nonviolent actions. Led by Martin Luther King Jr, the Civil Rights movement began with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and led to the March on Washington that culminated with Martin Luther King’s “ I have a Dream” speech. Through his actions and those involved in the movement, equality was gained through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1869 “separate but equal” was ruled constitutional in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.

Civil Rights Speech Comparison In the “I have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. he uses many different rhetorical devices to intrigue and interest his listeners to get his point across. He states, “I have a dream…” (12-19) several times to help him push his point across to the readers. This quote helps us understand how Martin Luther King uses many different styles to create a ‘need to know more’ essence for the audience.

In the beginning part of the speech, “The American Promise,” he says that Americans will fail as a nation if African-Americans can not have equal rights. He also quotes the Declaration of Independence by bringing up that America was founded on the purpose of “all men are created equal.” He says that that promise is something that every man should be able to share, no matter their position, skin color, or wealth. This part of the speech really shows that Johnson understands that discrimination that is holding certain people back and that it is not equal. Lyndon B. Johnson’s personal experience was one of the reasons that he supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The civil rights movement was a long and drawn out one. It was one of the issues at the forefront of American society for many years, and it went through many phases and was afffected by many things. Three things that played an especially big role in the evolution of the civil rights movement were the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and the N.A.A.C.P. The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling ushered in a new era. It ushered in the era of "separate but equal".

The Civil Rights Movement The achievements of The Civil Rights Movement improved the economic conditions of African Americans. The Civil Rights Movement was a mass movement to secure the rights for African American to have the access and opportunity to do and have that many others have. The The Civil Right Movement started around the 19th century it lead through the 1950s and 1960s. Many events happened during and after the the Civil Rights Movement.