Historical and Rehtroical Context Stewart Article

Historical Context:

In the second paragraph, the author talks about a church bombing that occurred three weeks after the march on D.C.
"Three weeks after the march, racists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham...during Sunday services and killed four young girls."

In the same paragraph, Stewart recalls a summer were a lot of tragedy occurred, specifically murder, shootings, and bombings.
"During the Freedom Summer of 1964, there were six murders, thirty-five shootings, sixty-five bombings and burning of homes, businesses, and churches, at least eighty recorded beatings".

Later on, Stewart talks about how protesters, rather than get beat up more, turned the march around in March of 1965.
"....March 1965 when participants in the Selma to Montgomery march were beaten and Martin Luther King, Jr. turned the march around a few days later rather than risk bloodshed from heavily armed police waiting for marchers."

In "Seizing The Moment", Stewart talks about James Meredith, a activist that worked on desegregating  The University of Mississippi. He was attacked the second day of the march.
"In June 1966 James Meredith, a civil rights legend who had desegregated the University of Mississippi and was now a law student of Columbia University, began a 220-mile pilgrimage across Mississippi to urge black citizens to register to vote and to demonstrate that blacks no longer had to fear white violence.   

In "Seizing The Moment", Stewart mentions when Carmichael was arrested for not obeying the "tents off the ground" rule.
That moments arrived on June 17 in Greenwood, Mississippi - the heart of SNCC country- when state troopers decided that marchers could not put up their sleeping tent on the grounds of a black high school, even though they had permission to do so, and arrested Stokely Carmichael when he ignored their order.

During the summer or spring of 1964, Malcolm X criticized the march on Washington as a "circus" and the "Farce on Washington".

When Willie Ricks created the phrase "Black Power!" It changed the atmosphere when "the moment was ripe".