In 1959, King toured India and further developed his understanding of Gandhian nonviolent strategies, and met with many followers of Gandhi"s teachings. ... President Kennedy responded to these protests in king's favor by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which "placed greater responsibility on the federal government to protect previously disenfranchised groups from discriminatory treatment" ("Civil Rights Movement" Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. 1992 ed.) ...

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He stated that like Ghandi in India, black people needed to practice Civil Disobedience. ... The beatings, mass arrests and even killings of the Civil Rights demonstrators pledeged to nonviolent Civil Disobedience were important factors in swaying public opinion and in the ultimate passage of a new Civil Rights legislation. ...

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"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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