That makes total sense when the disposition of the court would favor your side.
Blacks lost in court many times for a long time, ever since the Dred Scott decision, before we started winning.
I was just discussing this with my wife during lunch. By the 1960s, most whites in the country would probably poll in favor of general desegregation. Not necessarily a house in their neighborhood, but desegregated public facilities, yeah, probably. For sure, most whites by then were horrified by the images on the news of the ferocity southerners fought against integration of public facilities.
Do the majority of Americans actually disagree with deporting illegal immigrants...or is the problem with ICE for most Americans really just the optics
I remember when my family took a road trip from Oklahoma to Florida in 1963. The trip took us through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. There is a big difference between dealing with "sundown towns" today versus back then. Today, a sundown town is just an exit on the Interstate that you zoom past at 70 miles per hour. This was before an Interstate route existed through those states, so we were on state highways that took us directly through the middle of every po-dunk town on the route. And every town was a sun-down town on main street.
When we had to stop for gas or a biological break, my father would get out of the car first to enter the premises and determine whether or not we'd be served. Often he came back out, shook his head, and we drove on. Sometimes he said we could enter the back, but he was a military serviceman and had too much pride for do that.
I remember him saying he was looking for a Howard Johnson restaurant. I thought at the time and for many years that Howard Johnson must be a good place that allowed black people. It was really only a few years ago that I learned Howard Johnson had just lost a 1962 illegal segregation case with the Federal Trade Commission that proved federal desegregation rules applied to multi-state commercial businesses like bus companies and restaurant chains.