Rhetorical Analysis: Speech At The March On Washington

“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue… old as the scripture and as clear as the American Constitution”(Civil Rights Address, 5). In the “Speech at the March on Washington” Josephine Baker creates a much more effective speech than “Civil Rights Address” by John F. Kennedy for the reason of the reason of using personal anecdote, and appealing to ethos to persuade the audience to speak out. Baker was chosen to speak at the March on Washington because her experience of freedom in France and the racism in the U.S. On the other hand, Kennedy had to address an incident that recently happened in that time period. Baker talks about her experience meaning she appeals to ethos, and personal anecdote, but Kennedy appeals to ethos only and both appeals to call to action. Baker uses personal anecdote to persuade the audience, while Kennedy does not. Baker talks about how she “... could go into any restaurant [she] wanted to… drink water any place [she] wanted to… [she] got used to it, and liked it”( Speech at the March on Washington, 44-47).She talked about her experience of freedom in France,and that's what she personally lived. On the other …show more content…
Baker when finishing the speech out to the youth or as she used friends “ when you scream… you will be heard… [and] you youth people… you must get an education… and you must go to school”( Speech at the March on Washington, 66-71). Baker inspires her audience and in depth the youth to scream to be heard, and that to make a change get an education and go to school. During Kennedy's speech he tells the audience that “ now the time has come for the Nation to fulfill its promise…”( Civil Rights Address, 8). Kennedy inspires his audience to fulfill the nation promise of equality. Kennedy’s and Baker’s speech both have a call to action to the audience, so the audience can be inspired and to not allow