 and an outraged focus of national attention that nearly pushed Vietnam off the front pages. In a matter of hours, Selma had escalated from a skirmish to a battle of strategic significance. In Atlanta, where he heard the news, Martin Luther King, who had been personally leading the Selma campaign, announced a second trial would be made Tuesday and called on clergymen and other concerned citizens across the nation to travel to Selma to lend the support of their presence.