I don't know either.
If I may revise and extend my comments. . .
In my younger days, I was very much opposed to the law breaking and civil disobedience. As I have gotten older (and hopefully wiser), I am less troubled by that and I even see some need for some (God, I hate to even say this) Federal involvement to break the back of the state and local government enforced discrimination against our Black citizens. But even with that being said, I am still of the belief that King and fellow travelers were, at the least, used by the communists to stir discord in this country. That King advocated socialism makes me even more convinced of it. He may have done some good for Black Americans, but I also think that he laid the groundwork for even more problems by helping to put them on the Government plantation and destroying Black families.
Would it be appropriate to say that much of King's work was Church-based? (A point that the Left likes to hurry past, it seems) Black America, at that time, was very religious and far stronger as families than they are today. Somewhere between Selma and the Great Society, God was erased from the equation and replaced by the Welfare Check. Was it King himself who did this or white liberal Government bureaucrats who condescendingly ripped away people's pride and sense of self-worth because 'they need our help'? I tend to feel that it was more the latter, who continue to wrap themselves in King's mantle while gutting the heart of his intent.