以投票創造改變 Voting for Change

金恩到華盛頓針對投票權法案與詹森總統進行討論，雖然總統持贊同態度，但卻不認為該法案能通過；他告訴金恩再等一下、但金恩不願意繼續等待；他和其他的民權運動者決定要在阿拉巴馬州的賽爾碼市（Selma）進行抗議行動，賽爾碼市是個典型南方城市，雖然有半數以上的人口是黑人、卻只有少數黑人擁有投票權，這次的抗議從1965年1月開始。

一個月後，一名抗議者吉米李傑克森（Jimmie Lee Jackson）被州警槍殺身亡，傑克森的死訊激發金恩和其他民權運動者發起了投票權的示威遊行，從賽爾碼市到該州首府蒙哥馬利郡。

King went to Washington, D.C., to discuss a voting rights bill with President Lyndon Johnson. Although the president was supportive, he didn't think the bill could pass. He told King to wait, but King did not want to wait. He and other activists decided to protest in Selma, Alabama. Selma was a typical Southern city. Very few blacks were registered to vote, even though about half the population was black. The protests began in January 1965.

A month later, a protester, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was shot and killed by state troopers. Jackson's death spurred King and the others to organize a voting-rights protest march from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital.

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