Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X question?

I WAS living at that time, and I was whole-heartedly behind Dr. King. (Of course, since I really look like my avatar, it's not surprising that he was my choice.) Then, too, I didn't learn until about three years after Malcolm X's death that he had altered some of his racial views after he made the Hajj. Even so, I think Dr. King had the answer. He led people in firmly but non-violently standing up for their rights as Americans and simply as human beings. He didn't advocate separatism, and he didn't demonize anyone. I remember hearing him say once, in a filmed interview, that his movement was motivated by love and that he cared enough about white people, as well as blacks, to want them to do the right thing. I think that, if he had lived longer, the racial situation in this country today would be a much more positive one, and I suspect that many white people in the years after his death found themselves wishing they had listened to him when he was alive.