The Civil Rights movement was a nonviolent movement of civil disobedience and marches. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of its leaders and was assassinated.he nonviolence used by civil rights activists was a good tactic to  highlight the violence experience by black in the south. The media  would record the passive civil right … s activist being harmed and the  more the violence was out in the open the better for the movement.  . 1 person found this useful.