Many people know that Mohandas Gandhi influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. in his notions of nonviolent, passive resistance. Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence was a topic of discussion at Morehouse College and at Crozer Theological Seminary, where King studied.
Gandhi's nonviolence teaching formed the center of the Montgomery boycott movement in 1956. King journeyed to India in 1959 at the invitation of the Gandhi Memorial Trust to observe firsthand the strategies and impact of Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence.
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