Both readings of Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. and The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X are filled with strong rhetoric skills that are used to persuade its intended audience. King’s audience in his writing, formed from a solitary confinement cell, boils down to the the bishops that, whom King had once counted on for support, published a letter with the title A Call for Unity, which was critical and skeptical of King and his fellow supporters. King’s response identifies and refutes the nine criticisms that were brought up in the clergymen's letter. In a more broad view, his audience is anyone because according to him, everyone plays a role in the segregation and its repercussions. King uses logos, in the form of using
