In this firsthand account published in Fellowship magazine, Bayard Rustin examines the rise of nonviolent mass resistance against British colonial rule in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Recounting his meetings with Kwame Nkrumah and other participants in the independence movement, Rustin documents the use of strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience in challenging colonial authority despite severe repression. He argues that the movement’s 1951 victory demonstrated the power of disciplined nonviolent action to overcome even entrenched systems of oppression.