Lastly, the most influential thinker to his thought was Mohandas Gandhi and through philosophy of non-violence we began to see the creation of the strongest civil right leader. ... After reading Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience for the first time, he reread the essay several times. ... When, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, a mass of demonstrators gathered in Washington D.C., for what is now known as the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."" ... He remains as a symbol of the African American civil rights struggles and of nonviolence. ...

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