I may not be correct but I believe that Martin Luther King implied that if they were to protest with violent it would only result in more violence as a retaliation by the government. So by doing peaceful protest the government didnt have an actual solid reason to attack them, so when the government did enact violence on them it caught the attention of people around the world.
King Philip's war is the result of English settlers wanting to expand the colonies to the West, angering many Native Americans, especially the Wampanoags.
Both determined how people were counted and what qualifications one had to have to be counted as a person.
