Great movements usually have small, insignificant
beginnings. Sometimes, as Albert Camus said in The Rebel, it is as
simple as one person saying no, I won’t take this anymore. Rosa Parks did just
that on a bus in the town of Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. Did
anyone in 1885 seriously think the Congress, founded by an imperial civil
servant, would find the energies to arouse Indians strongly enough to take back
their country? The US civil rights movement dates back to 1954 but i