 Among those gassed and beaten was Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was at the center of civil rights activity at the time.The national broadcast of the news footage of lawmen attacking unresisting marchers' seeking to exercise their constitutional right to vote provoked a national response and hundreds of people from all over the country came for a second march.These marchers were turned around by Dr. King at the last minute so as not to violate a federal injunction.