When analyzing the speeches made in terms of logos, pathos, and ethos first looking at Fannie Lou Hamer you can tell she is really trying to evoke passion from her speech. She is targeting pathos to show how she was not allowed certain liberties other people were allowed and not only that she gave accounts of which she was beaten because she was in the minority. She uses logos to appeal to the common person and for them to realize that this is not an acceptable way to treat someone. That there is something wrong if you can be pulled out of a bus and jailed, as well as getting beat in jail. She touches on our ability to trust, ethos, by putting a negative image in our heads of the people that we are supposed to trust.
Stokely Carmichael also uses a lot of pathos. He tries to speak in a way in which will get people riled up and make them take action. He addresses the need for action in his last two paragraphs. In his speech using pathos he gets people to feel for black people as a race and realize that the treatment they are receiving is not fair. He uses pathos in conjunction with logos to show how it is not only wrong but illogical and at the end says that if it is not changed then the black community will have to take action.
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I agree with what you said about Fannie Lou Hamer using pathos to get people to know the unfairness of the treatment black people receive in that she describes how the black population was beaten just for registering to vote. I also think this has to do with the logos appeal as well, as she is giving us information from her own experience as testimony to how African Americans were treated in America.
I agree pathos is important with Hamer, as the audience is moved to sympathize with her and her cause, including her past injuries. Pathos and logos are also involved with Carmichael, as he's trying to get the students to realize the current situation with civil rights must be addressed.
I also noticed taht Carmichael uses a lot of pathos. He probably recognizes that audiences react more to thinks that they can get "fired up" over. I agree that pathos needs to be backed by logos in order to turn passion into a movement. People love being motivated, but they need to believe in something for it to work.
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