Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax Review

Speaker- George Wallace

In class I read the speech Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax. This speech was presented by George Wallace and was about the Civil Rights Bill. The speech used Logos and Pathos to point out how the Civil Rights Bill was a hoax. Mr. Wallace used Logos when he said, “I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that will destroy our free enterprise system.” This is logos because he is saying that the bill will destroy free enterprise. He also used pathos when he said, “…we will no longer tolerate the boot of tyranny.” This appeals to people’s emotions because no one wants to be exposed to tyranny. Those are strong words but the speech really lacked an important aspect. It never actually explained how the Civil Rights Bill will destroy free enterprise. This is probably the most important part of a speech. I also didn’t like the speech because it was extremely racist.