The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arrives in 1961 to help black citizens combat segregation but by year's end, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is asked to provide support to the Albany movement. Police chief Laurie Pritchett avoids creating scenes of police brutality, and arranges for someone to pay King's and Rev. Ralph Abernathy's bail so the leaders are not a magnet for unwelcome attention. Conflicts arise between the SNCC and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) over leadership issues. In Birmingham, Alabama activists launch Project "C" (confrontation) and Martin Luther King, Jr. writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Civil rights leaders plan for a march in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate for jobs and freedom. Through opposition, labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, organizer of the march's complex logistics, press ahead.