Resistance is hard work, and it's harder still when our communication methods are disrupted. However, grassroots movements of the past can highlight a way forward.
Three years after Brown vs. Board of Education, The Little Rock Nine were the first Black students to attend the newly desegregated Little Rock High School. Though they faced angry white mobs, slurs, and threats from the police, the nine students showed up to school every day for 25 days until the President intervened.
Organized by college students to desegregate the private sector, the Greensboro sit-ins lasted six months. The participants planned to meet at Woolworths' counter, order food, and refuse to leave when they were denied service. Their passive resistance ultimately led to them achieving their goals.
Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks just wanted to sit in peace. Their refusal to move to the back of the bus and subsequent arrests for non-compliance ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Led by Black women, the 381-day boycott led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional.
Each pivotal event was organized locally, on the ground, with little help. We've done it before with great success, even with the bumps, bruises, and pain that came along with it. We will do it again.