Of jail and i am not happy to be out. Out of jail and out of the headlines, king seen momentarily out of options. And the National Press corp. New it. Reporters present albany as a big defeat. Its viewed as a series, political setback for dr. King and in part because there had been absolutely no white violence whatsoever against black demonstrators in albany. As long as Civil Rights Activists were just being quietly and respectfully jailed, the media didnt really care about that story. King knew he had to get the movement back on track. And to really make this notion of nonviolence work, he had to find a place where there would be resistance, where people could really see the ugliness of what they were confronting. He recognized that nothing was going to change until and unless most americans were exposed to the reality of what was going on. So thats what he needed to do was provoke a reaction on the part of bigoted southerners who are all too willing to play their part. He just had to