Effectiveness of MLK's speeches

In this blog, I will be talking about Martin Luther King and the importance of his speeches. Regarding his speech "How long? Not Long!" , there are many factors and ideas that MLK used to take out the fear from the people of his crowd. First of all we can see that he was 100% confident. He knew what he was saying , and he knew that he was doing the right thing. His convincing tone (He was literally screaming) shows that he was confident that he had the right ideas, and the screaming is i guess what touched the feelings of his people and pushed them to be happy and respond with jeers of joy also. It kind of stored some confidence and energy in to the crowd. There was also the repetition of the words " How long? Not long !" that created a sense of comedy in the crowd, and made them laugh. In my opinion, that was to soot down the minds and souls of the people, as i'm pretty sure that they were feeling really tense about the Birmingham March, which was a march done to express the discontent of the black people about the ways they were treated unjustly. We could see the person next to MLK, which I think was one of his colleagues, was laughing, which means that he wasn't worried at all.And in the end we can hear Martin say "Glory Alleluiah" with his right hand bowing the crowd, which shows that god is with them, he is blessing them. God and religion were really important to MLK and his crowd. This gesture kind of told the crowd that ho is with them so they have nothing to fear about.

In the other speech I watched, which was his last speech he'll ever give, which took place in 1968, we can see that the tone of his voice is stronger which is in my opinion a tone of anger. His anger provoked an exciting reaction in the crowd, which showed that they were willing to march with him and to do their best to earn respect and equality in the world. MLK also felt that his death was near, as he says that he 'will not reach the promise land together with you " ( referring to the crowd) . This shows how much he dedicated himself to his march, and to his fight for equality, and for the rights of those black people: almost his  whole adult life.