... nonviolent protest and civil rights as well as meeting with religious figures, activists and political leaders. During a month-long trip to India in 1959, he had the opportunity to meet family members and followers of Gandhi, the man he described in his autobiography as "the guiding light of our ... the country. Held on August 28 and attended by some 200,000 to 300,000 participants, the event is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American civil rights movement and a factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pepper, Williams 2008). In ... the last...

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... the time that Martin Luther King Jr. became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He stated that like Ghandi in India, black people needed to practice Civil Disobedience. He told people to stop using the buses until they treated blacks and whites To What Extent 5 equally. This boycott lasted more than a year, and it was a major inconvenience for people who participated. ... movement and fighting against the pro-slavery Confederacy in the Civil War. Early African American Responses African Americans responded in a variety of ways. Booker T Washington, the early 20th To What Extent 6 cen...

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