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 technique of nonviolent social change.... 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). ...

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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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