ENGL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Southern Christian Leadership Conference
27 Aug 2016
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The overall purpose of this letter was for mlk to convince the clergymen to support the people he was protesting for in birmingham as well as responding to their criticism. The context of this letter was during the civil rights movement in means of reaching out from imprisonment to persuade a specific group to act: what is the audience? (primary, secondary) The primary audience were the eight clergymen who sent him a letter criticizing mlk"s methods. The secondary audience ranges from a number of groups who received this letter: the white churches, Some values between dr. king and the clergymen which are shared are that they are equally as. Christian as each other, but have a different way of pursuing the word. Pg 42 p2: we indicates mlk"s group the southern christian leadership conference, being denied a response after fulfilling promises of the city.
