LOL. You are insistent on re-writing history and telling us all to do it your way. People in those days were not sympathetic to King and in fact the FBI was busy trying to prove he was a communist.
They were also lynching black folks. That's how "sympathetic" they were to King's cause. At first, King was not very well liked at all.
It took time. And it took people the courage to tell the tyrants "hell no! We will no longer obey your laws."
That's what it took. Legislatures would have laughed them out of their chambers.
That's what it took. Legislatures would have laughed them out of their chambers.
Laughted out of their chambers? 3/4 of the legislatures ratifed the 14th amendment 100 years BEFORE King came to power. Try again.