Stewart piece: Historical and Rhetorical context

Historical context:

• Top left 490 "More than 250,000 leaders, members and sympathizers of the civil rights movements gathered in Washington DC on August 28, 1963 both to celebrate the movement's achievements and to demand 'Freedom now!'" Civil right's movement 1963, the day of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. 

• Bottom left 490 "During the freedom Summer of 1964, there were six murders, thrty-five shootings, sixty-five bombings and burnings of homes, businesses, and churches, and at least eighty recorded beatings." There was a lot of violence during the summer of 1964

• "demonstrationss in nine northern cities between July 18 and september 7, 1964, revealed a growing militancy"     Growing militancy between July 18 and Sept 7 1964 at the democratic party convention

• March in Selma, March 1965

"Disillusionnment with movement leaders and their white liberal allies excalated in 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 oollice waiting for the marchers."

• James Meredith voter registration tour of June 1966
• June 17th Carmichael getting arrested for the setting up his tent on th black school grounds when the militia said no

Rhetorical Context:

• "A favorite target was the march of the previours summer that he referred to as the 'circus' or the 'Farce on Wasington.'"   referencing the Malcolm X's bullet or ballot speech as a  rhetorical moment (bottom left 490)
• "The press noted that Willie Ricks the field secretary of SNC, was heard to shout a catchy new phrase 'Black Power!'"   referencing that Carmichael waiting to use the phrase "Black Power!' so that it could properly catch on (bottom right 491)

• referencing that MLK had a hard time convincing the other younger leaders that nonviolence and white alliances were the best option (bottom left 491)