HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Asoka
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the Buddha
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Siddartha Gautama
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Mohandas Ghandi
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, King learned about Gandhi through his writings and a trip to India in 1959. He drew heavily on the Gandhian idea of nonviolence in his own activism. King wrote that Gandhi was a “guiding light” for him.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gandhi’s philosophy directly influenced King, who first employed strategies of nonviolent direct action in the 1955 to 1956 Montgomery bus boycott.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gandhi influenced the leadership of the civil rights movement including Ralph Abernathy, James Baldwin. Marian Wright Edelman, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, A. Philip Randolph, James Herman Robinson, Bayard Rustin, Howard Thurman, and Congressman John Lewis.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a heroic mission to educate, awaken and revolutionize the American people to fight the injustices inflicted upon African Americans. Like Gandhi, he fought the injustices with love, respect, and non-violent protest.
Detailed explanation-5: -Legendary civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that peace and economic justice were critical to his fight for human rights. His tireless work advocating for the end of war and nuclear weapons and to lift Americans out of poverty continues to inspire activists today.