What else could they do Jimmy?
Who knows, but consider the other Civil Rights movement of the 60s/70s.
They held peaceful demos and were attacked by hostile crowds. They did not respond by bombing malls across the USA.
Soldiery sent to restore order often behaved cruelly and disgracefully to them. They did not make every US soldier, on duty or with his family or even overseas, a legitimate target for a bullet in the back.
Both movements achieved their aims because history had moved on.
Are you sure that the bombings and shootings really hastened reform?
Keith.