The purpose of a political letter is to try to inform and convince the audience to think about a problem that should be of public interest, however, the audience is what makes the letter powerful. The audience sets the context and message of the letter. An example is, Martin Luther King’s infamous “Letter from Birmingham jail”. This letter shows that the audience of a political letter can be much more than just the directly announced audience. Eight Alabama clergymen issued a letter to King expressing their dissatisfaction with how King and the black community handled their issue with segregation. The Clergymen’s argument in their letter to King, the clergymen state that King and his protesters are "outsiders", and that King and his protesters
