RaviSez

Too many times, legends are perpetuated to present a human face for movements of struggle.  Mangal Pandey of the  Sepoy Mutiny in the Indian freedom struggle or Mahatma Gandhi being thrown out of the train in South Africa are incidents that come to my mind.  They put the abstract notion of Indian resistance to the British rule on a level that people could identify. Instapundit points to this link about  the Rosa Parks myth. Read it. And Rest in peace Rosa Parks.