Probably not, but there were other leaders within those larger protests who did believe in violence and called for it, but were not followed as much. From the g

Probably not, but there were other leaders within those larger protests who did believe in violence and called for it, but were not followed as much. From the government perspective, those leaders did present a threat of violence. Meaning that at any point Gandhi/MLK could fade into irrelevance and one of those leaders could lead the charge.