The Dead End of the Martin Luther King Jr. Myth.
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Not being alive at the time or knowing anyone who lived in the South during that era it's hard for me to say whether or not his "espoused nonviolence" was done with a wink and a nod as is done today.
At best you could say he espoused official violence: a truly pacifist activist would show equal disapproval for the US Army and National Guard enforcing desegregation at gunpoint as they would for Southern police departments enforcing segregation at gunpoint.
Well, there was a shitload of racial violence going on in the 60s. I guess King didn't promote it. He was hardly the only influencer. Absolutely he was trying to have the weapons of government -- northern government -- pointed at white Southerners. This wasn't a "hey please can we all get along"; it was "you will accept the negro in white spaces"