Rhetorical Analysis: Carmichael

To illustrate, the author repeats “you” to indicate that the boys are held responsible. Through this repetition, the author makes it clear that the “boys” are the only ones responsible for the sheep’s death. McCaig expresses his anger towards the criminals by blaming the criminals through the use of “you.” The phrase “hunters-men” is repeated to compare the felons to men. He degrades the “boys” by characterizing them as irresponsible when a man is responsible and follows the rules.

John Brown Struggles for equality is always downplayed or sometimes not even portrayed. American History Textbooks described John Brown as being insane, but he was really sane.” “Governor Wise of Virginia called him “a man of clear head’’ after Brown got the better of him in an informal interview” (Loewen, 1995, p.176). Textbooks authors inferred Brown was insane by reason of his plans seemed bizarre. During his time period not many White men believed in equality of blacks, So Brown actions made no sense to writers between 1890 and about 1970.

Carmichael challenged the method of nonviolent resistance and placed a new emphasis on self-reliance and racial pride. At the time, his beliefs were more compatible with the emerging ideologies within SNCC, and the organization managed to grab America’s attention. However, there was great controversy and misunderstandings surrounding the ideology of Black Power. After Stokely Carmichael’s election, the concept of separatism grew within SNCC, and it became a strictly African American organization. How did the media associate Black Power with militant separatism, and did the loss of white members in the organization have a significant impact?

Maurice Willows: Unsung Hero of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 During the early 1900s, African Americans continued their struggle for civil rights on a national scale with seemingly no definitive solution in sight. In the wake of one of the most violent race riots in American history, one man sought to overlook racial differences and the rules of his own organization to provide aid to those in need. Through the leadership of Maurice Willows during the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the American Red Cross compromised their mission enabling the organization to be the sole responder, provider of relief, and champion of African American rights. Maurice Willows’ decision to defy the tenets of the Red Cross made him an unsung hero who saved countless lives.

“ If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds” - Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Activist. This quote perfectly captures the struggle and doubt that African Americans have underwent and overcome for decades during the revolutionary Civil Rights era in the United States of America. The African American population have faced a tremendous and unimaginable amount of unfair hate and racial inequality for centuries. Rooting back from the 1400’s when Africans Americans were brought to the U.S for uses of slavery this group of people have been controlled and degraded until they finally decided enough was enough, stood up, united, and slowly but surely made changes.

“It is time to wake up Washington as it has never been shocked before,” were the famous words spoken by black labor leader A. Philip Randolph. After WWII in the 1940’s African Americans wanted to see change following the war. African Americans became more assertive for equality and the rights they knew they should be given. During this time the NAACP worked to end the discrimination within the armed forces. There was an organization called CORE, congress of racial equality that wanted to protest without using violence, which lead to the sit ins in the south that challenged the Jim Crow laws.

An advocate of “fundamental social transformation”, this belief, combined with Ella Baker’s consistent confidence of change beginning within the local people of the movement, paved her path to becoming a life-time activist for civil liberties and equality among all Americans. (194) While she may be renown amongst Civil Rights enthusiasts, Baker’s involvement and impact on the movement remains relatively unknown to the majority of Americans. Barbara Ransby’s book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement attempts to end this silence, and does so very convincingly. Throughout her book, Ransby points out example-after-example of how Baker is either directly or indirectly involved with many of the Civil Rights Movement’s most famous moments – creation of the NAACP, freedom rides, the SCLC, Birmingham, Albany, the SNCC, etc. After reading about her dedication and the sacrifices she made for the

Starting from the Brown vs. Board of Education, several groups and organization such as the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC took several approaches to several issues. The approaches they took were unique, but they seemed to compliment each other as well. On the other hand, Robert Williams proposed his own approaches, which were different than the approaches of other organizations and groups. However, since the dominant ideology of that period of time was the liberal integrationism, they all adhered to this ideology in one way or the other. Although, all of these organizations and groups had their own approaches, their approaches had both strengths and weaknesses, which can be easily noticed throughout the Tyson’s article “Black Power and the Roots of the Freedom Struggle” and the readings

Andrews and Gaby show that the process to build support for the civil rights movement work on a two level approach “First, the Department of Justice attempted to promote “voluntary” desegregation by working with executives of national companies and civic groups. Second, administration officials worked with these same groups to build support for major legislation among key interest groups” (Andrews and Gaby). The movement starts as a way of having voluntary desegregation and then a movement toward making major legislation change. Thurgood Marshall is part of the major legislative changes that occurred during the civil rights movement, as he is part of the team of attorneys who won Brown vs Board of Education. This philosophy of promoting desegregation among civic groups then pushing for legislative changes limited racial tensions as much as possible.

To make blacks actively participate in political matters by doubling the number of black voters, thereby transforming an old isolated black to the “new negro” was an important goal of the crusade for citizenship program. However, the crusade failed to meet its goal of doubling the number of black voters. Both external and internal factors caused the result. First and foremost gaining the right to vote confronted a fierce opposition from whites. Whites’ challenges were: economic threats, gerrymandering and requiring a literacy test pass for voters (illiteracy was a big problem for blacks at that time).

Stokely Carmichael burst in to the American consciousness in 1966 as the distinctive face and Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), leading the call for Black Power and taking the freedom struggle to a new level. Often an afterthought in the wider historiography of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, Joseph’s biography adds to the relative sparsity of complete works on Carmichael and aims primarily to tell the complete story of his life, restoring the man to the forefront of discussions surrounding important actors in the era. Not without its merits, this very desire eventually becomes the book’s Achilles heel; as a ‘critical biography’ as defined by Joseph in the preface, Stokely: A Life does become blighted

Voting has been a major barrier for African Americans before and since 1870 when African Americans males were given the right to vote due to a ratification in the 15th Amendment. In the article “A Dream Undone” by the New York Times, the reader is given a brief history of the black vote. Most of this is told in brief anecdotes from and or about numerous figures that reside in North Carolina. The stories focus on the tactics used to suppress the black vote, the role of race in politics, how race changed politics, and the progression of the black vote.

The NAACP also “attacked segregation and racial inequality.”. Leaders of the NAACP “sought, first, to make whites aware of the need for

In order to preserve black solidarity, there should be a precise identification of group members, loyalty and common goals and values. Throughout the Civil Rights Movement, there were common goals and values between African American organizations like integration, advancement opportunities rights to full citizenship. Examples of black solidarity during the Civil Rights Movement were the March on Washington in 1963, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which helped to produce civil liberties. In the film “Making a way out of no way” African American leader, Booker T. Washington, argued that slaves should unite with each other and whites to obtain an education to enhance the conditions of the South. In President Obama’s speech “ A More Perfect Union,” he states, “we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union,” to emphasize the importance of unity in the American society.

Racism can be followed throughout history to the colonization of America to the Age of Imperialism in Britain. To this day the way that African Americans have been depicted has determined how they are treated. To fully understand the effects of propaganda, it is necessary to be able to answer the question, To what extent has the marginalization of African Americans contributed to social and political movements in the Civil Rights Era? This is significant because the racial tension in the United States has strengthened with the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.