MLK did try "bargaining" with local officials. But he shouldn't have had to.
Everyone of those individuals had a right to sit ins and protests!
You have no RIGHT to sit-in or protest on someone else's property, contrary to the MSM's intimations otherwise. Many forget King and the civil rights bunch ignored property rights in encouraging sit-ins at lunch counters that were not open to blacks.
Desegregation set back the cause of a colorblind society a hundred years, in its incitement of hatreds and reverse discrimination. Brown was a watershed, as was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in that both meant that government had officially quit trying to let people settle things for themselves as far as racial animus was concerned.
Pardon my ignorance (and I am not being sarcastic) but where is the right to conduct a sit-in at a private business enumerated?
I don't object to the sit-ins and protests.
I do object to: King's associations with communists,
his increasingly socialistic beliefs and rhetoric,
and what "civil rights" rather quickly turned into --
black power and overbearing statism.