... abolished however the rights of these 'slaves' were not acknowledged. The movement was sought out to cast aside decades of injustice and was framed by major campaigns of civil resistance in 1954 till 1968. During the 1960s, great judicial and legislative reform was made such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.The ... the law while he was in South Africa as he saw that these laws were unjust. While in jail, Gandhi read the essay "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau.. Gandhi adopted the term "civil disobedience" to describe his strategy of non-vi...

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