Rhetorical and Historical

5. Historical

1.      More than 250,000 leaders, members, and sympathizers of the civil rights movement gathered in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963   Both celebrate the movement’s achievements and to demand “Freedom Now! (490)” 

This quote shows how a large group of people peacefully protest for Freedom. 

2.      “As the movement spread to northern states and the ghettos of large northern cities, riots and demonstrations in nine northern cities between July 18 and September 7, 1964 revealed a growing militance anger, and despair within black communities and the movement. (490)”

This quote shows how the protest demonstrations increased frustration amongst black communities.

3.      “In June 1996 James Meredith, a civil rights legend who had desegregated the university of Missipi and was now a law student at Columbia University began a 220 mile pilgrimage across Missipi to urge black critizens to register to vote and to demonstrate that blacks no longer had to fear white violence (491).” 

4.      In early 1966, CORE and SNCC deepened the fissures within the movement when they advocated armed self-defense and SNCC became an all black Organization. 

Rhetorical Context

1.      There was a growing disillusionment with integration as the way to attain freedom and equality for black Americans.

There has to be more than integration to change the problems of racism and inequality.