Funny, I am just reading biography of Rosa Park and NAACP was not exactly popular organization in her life time. The parents did not wanted their children to be in youth wing and membership was low where she lived. She was incredibly frustrated by all that prior bus event blowing up.

NAACP also pushed government most of the time - the registering for vote, push to make school desegregation actually happen, letter writing about various criminal causes. They were not trying to do it without government, they were trying to make government do the right thing.