Picture - Kairos

The kairos depicted in this picture is perhaps one of the most evident rhetoric devices out of all of them we have discussed this semester. The civil rights movement is perhaps one of the most decade defining moments of the 1960's and this picture does an excellent job showcasing how the civil rights movement was carried out. The main thing that captures the significance of the movement at that time is the large number of protesters shown in the picture. Protesters in the 60's often used large crowds of people to send their message because media outlets were not as big as they are now, so their best medium for voicing their opinions was through large protests. Signs on the other hand are very universal, and they are used in many different ways from protests to your everyday traffic signals. Because of this I would argue that the signs used do not necessarily add much to the kairos because they do not have an extreme importance to that particular moment in time. In other words, signs are almost always used in protests or rallies so the fact that they were used in this 1960's civil rights protest does not add much significance to that moment in time like the large and diverse population of protesters does.