Obama Facts
This man was Obama's Vice President for both terms, later on serving as President himself.
Who is Joe Biden?
"What is our obligation to our neighbors?" is an example of this rhetorical choice.
What is rhetorical questioning?
The president during the Montgomery March.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This bridge is considered integral to the March that took place.
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
This is another infamous march in Civil Rights history where MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) is also referred to as this.
What is Obamacare
"A doctor described what tear gas does to the body, while marchers scribbled down instructions for contacting their loved ones," while establishing emotional appeal, the above quote is an example of this rhetorical choice.
What is imagery?
He is one of the most infamous Civil Rights leaders who was in attendance at the March and was assassinated only three years later.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
On March seventh, 1965, 600 people set out to march 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery. This day later became known as this.
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
This act passed in 1964 forbid discrimination in voting based on racial biases.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Obama attended three different colleges. Occidental college and these two ivy league schools.
What are Columbia University and Harvard law school?
In one of his many historical allusions, Obama references this infamous American document, emphasizing "...all men are created equal."
What is the constitution?
The name for these oppressive race-based laws deriving from this racist minstrel performer's name.
Who is Jim Crow?
The Montgomery March was led most notably by this Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee member.
Who is John Lewis?
This boycott stemmed from Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Obama's birthplace despite his parents ethnicity.
What is Honolulu?
Obama begins his speech replying to an audience member who yelled this statement establishing pathos or an emotional appeal before his speech even began.
What is "We love you, President Obama"?
Obama referenced a Department of Justice investigation that showed that police in this county were routinely racially profiling and said "with respect to race, little has changed in this country."
What is Ferguson?
The SCLC fought to make this city in Alabama the focus of a black voter registration campaign.
What is Selma?
This act passed one week after the assassination of MLK Jr. known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is also known as this.
What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?
This is Obama's full government name.
What is Barack Hussein Obama II?
Obama referenced this Civil Rights activist throughout his speech and referred to him as one of his heroes within the first sentence.
Who is John Lewis?
Obama quoted this African-American writer in this quote: "We are capable bearing a great burden once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is."
Who is James Baldwin?
After the march this president went on national television to show his support for the Civil Rights movement and vow to create equality in voting.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This New York Representative is the first black woman elected to Congress in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?