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The African American influenced by the Harlem Renaissance had a strong sense of racial pride and desire foe social and political equality. After World War Ⅱ, federal government subsidized education career. The black men lived in northern states and more women had opportunity to learn, and they became well-educated. But in the segregated South, blacks were prevented from sitting together in public place. What worse is that most blacks did not own voting rights in reality because of State Law and diehard racialism organizations. The blacks’ hard life wined wide public sympathy. More and more people realized prejudice of blacks did not fit American value they held. The catalytic event happened in 1955. A woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person on a Montgomery city bus as required by regional law, so the police came and she was put into prison. Her action aroused many supporters across the whole country. Some whites also joined to this group. Her arrest sparked a yearlong bus boycott which signalized the beginning of the American Civil Rights Movement. Besides, many anti-segregation organizations’ influence and the tactics they taken were critical to the movement’s success. There were three main organizations, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). These three groups took an important role in the movement. “They provided the leadership, the nonviolent tactics, the network and the people to fight against Southern segregation.”(Zhu Yongtao, 101) The strongest leadership came from the SCLC, headed by Baptist minister Martin Luther King. Jr. These organizations tended to use unconventional tactics to fight against the de jure segregation. The nonviolent civil disobedience was the most effective one, usually being used together with “sit-in” tactics. It was usually used in Greensboro, North Carolina. The most famous event was four black students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University asked to be served in a restaurant, but been requested to leave. The students refused. Though the police used all kinds of things to threaten them, more and more black students gathered there to join them. In the following two months, similar sit-ins happened in the restaurants and lunch counters across the states. It can be seen that the tactic was acted in this way, a group of people intentionally breaking a law and accepting the consequence as a way to publicize the unjustness of the law. This action did arouse many people’s attention to blacks’ unequal treatment and brought much pressure on the statesmen and government. Meanwhile, there were still some activists taken Direct Action. “Freedom Rides” was a popular one. The blacks and some whites took the same bus to go to the southern states where segregation was rooted in society. The radical’s action exasperated the atrocities. Conflict was unavoidable. The Movement used different tactics in different circumstances. Many participants were put into the jail. It was said that there was no space for more prisoner in some states. There was another element not to be ignored— the mass media, particularly TV. Thanks to the mass media, more people were able to witness the black American’s suffering. Abolishing Segregation meets the American value and conforms to the common aspiration of the people. It evoked sympathetic responses across the whole nation and around the glob