Crowd

Ch. 17-18, Blog – Can one voice move a crowd to action?

Yes, but it depends on who that voice is and what the crowd is. In the book, we see Wright realizing that the Communists can't reach the black population because they speak in high ideals and metaphors and things that aren't common knowledge in the impoverished black population. So the Communist speakers can't move that crowd to action. However, as seen by the fact that they can recruit successfully, a speaker can reach other crowds, like whites and 'intellectuals' and people like Wright.