his southern christian leadership conference took to the streets demanding the right to vote for blackpool citizens. a move that landed him in jail for parading without a permit. >> things are as well as you expect they are. the result being the creative witness of hundreds, even thousands of negroes in this community, we have been able to bring this whole issue to the attention of the nation, and i think to the congress. >> by the time king was reallied protest spread from selma to marion. a predominantly black town, but where only a handful of african-americans were registered to vote. a march there ended in confrontation with police and the shooting by a state trooper of protester jimmy lee jackson. his death, a week later was the catalyst for the selma to montgomery march. on the first attempt hundreds of demonstrators were also met by brute force. when they arrived at selma's edmund pettus bridge, the police fired tear gas and attacked the marchers with clubs. it became known as bloody sunday troopers on horseback charged at the marchs. this time king led the pro session. but they tur