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Unit Assessment The socioeconomic and political momentum African Americans achieved during the reconstruction era hit a solid wall of constitutionalized Jim Crow laws, laws legalized by the Plessey v Ferguson Supreme Court Case, which segregated black and white Americans. African Americans remained on the receiving end of racial discrimination and terrorism for almost a century. Although it had made no progress for almost a century, the push for African American rights gained a lot of…

During World War II, African Americans faced escalating tensions full of racial discrimination. In an article from the 3/3/1942 edition of the Kansas City newspaper, The Plainsdealer, called “Join the NAACP” from the “African American Newspaper Series 1, 1827-1998” database, the need for active NAACP membership in fighting for African American rights is raised. By drawing on the historical narrative from the course readings, the primary source being presented can correlate to the need to fight…

Both of the essays “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther king Jr. and “Civil Disobedience” by Henry Thoreau (1849) showed their understanding about civil disobedience multiple times. Their purpose of their essays was to argue for the right to disobey authority if there is social injustice. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King Jr. took direct action rather than waiting, potentially forever, for justice to come through the courts. King also analyzes the duty and the…

Civil rights leader, Cesar Chavez, in his magazine article, "Nonviolence", highlights the flaws associated with violent actions. Chavez's purpose is to promote nonviolent retaliations as opposed to violent ones. He adopts an earnest tone in order to appeal to the social morals in his audience. Chavez begins his second paragraph by discussing how God says human life is a natural right and cannot be taken away. Through the use of appealing diction, Chavez appeals to religious readers by stating…

Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi and their examples of nonviolent protest in order to show how nonviolence prevails over violence. “Dr. King’s entire life was an example of power that nonviolence brings to bear in the real world” (1-2). Chavez alludes to King in…

Martin Luther King Jr. has empowered and strongly impacted people with his words many times before. The book Why We Can't Wait is no exception. In this book, Martin Luther King uses his words to strengthen the Black Americans in 1963. In Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King Jr. describes to the Black Americans in 1963 the social conditions and their attitudes using rhetorical questions, parallelism, and repetition. In the book, King separates it into three sections. In the beginning, he…

George Whitefield was a preacher in the Great Awakening, an emotional Christian movement in the late 1730’s. He was very popular, his sermons inspired and changed people with his new ideas. According to Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography (Document A), Whitefield was a very persuasive speaker. Franklin attended one of his sermons about building an Orphan House in Georgia, something that Franklin did not support as he did want one built in Philadelphia instead. However, as Whitefield went on,…

Pathos is, by far, the strongest between the three elements of rhetoric in the speech. First, let’s define pathos: It is a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness. Martin Luther utilizes pathos to build a relationship with his black and white audiences, appealing to both of their emotions and values. The use of pathos in his speech assisted him in captivating the emotions of his audience and sparking a sense of guilt in those who were ignorant and displayed the lack of…

“A Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. was written in the form of a letter to express his opposing opinions towards the clergy men. Martin had been put in the jail for parading around without a permit. Also this represents how even though in jail he still conducted to keep his grammar and his writing in check he used no excuse possible and write amazingly and flawlessly. Not only that but he also Is well known for this letter to the clergy men still to this day and he gets…

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Up to this day, Marthin Luther King still plays a signigicant role in equality between different races. When he was imprisoned in a Birmingham jail for no apparent reason in 1963, eight white Alabama clergymen wrote a letter to African-Americans and urged them to stop protesting in the streets. A few days later King responded by writing “A Letter From a Birmingham Jail” claiming that African-Americans…