In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina\'s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag.
Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-Century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle\'s ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the "available means of p.
The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol.
In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina\'s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag