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A Bumpy Road In The 1960's

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During the 1960’s there was a bumpy road in the U.S. There was different battles that the United States was facing. So many things were going on in the United States like trying to maintain a positive outcome on the civil rights movement. That was the era when rock and roll, drugs and sex was so strong and that was what most of the citizens were all about. Governor George Wallace and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had different mentalities. They both did what they thought was right. This essay will be pointing out the similarities and differences between them using Kairos, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

George Wallace was against black having rights when on the other had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for the rights of his people (negros).

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