What tactics did black Southerners use to oppose segregation

The civil rights movement was a grassroots movement, which depended on support from ordinary black Southerners and white liberals in the North and South. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for one year from December 1955 to December 1956. It began when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to obey a law that forced black passengers to give up their seat on the bus to white passengers. Black Montgomery residents refused to ride the buses until they were treated equal to white passengers. After a year, the boycott succeeded.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. first rose to leadership in the civil rights movement by playing an important role in helping to lead the boycott. King urged civil rights supporters to adopt a strategy of nonviolence. He believed that nonviolence was both morally correct and the best strategy for a minority group confronting a hostile white majority.