Martin Luther King Jr. helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.
Martin Luther King Jr. . In 1965 , he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches , and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing . Selma to Montgomery marches . Finding resistance by white officials to be intractable , even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended legal segregation , the DCVL invited Rev. Martin Luther King , Jr. and the activists of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) to join them .