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A Brief history of Gandhi his teachings, followers, and life.
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Ghandiby Joshua Mhoon
info from: Wikipedia and Google
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What Gandhi Did
• Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights.
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The Return• After his return to India from South Africa
in 1915, he set about organizing peasants, farmers, and urban laborers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination.
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Swaraj• Assuming leadership of the
Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination.
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Salt Tax• Gandhi famously led Indians in
protesting the British-imposed salt tax and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942.
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Non-Violence
• He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. Gandhi strove to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same.
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Jail
• He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India.
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Gandhi’s Dates
• Born 2 October 1869
• Porbandar, Kathiawar Agency, British India
• Died 30 January 1948 (aged 78)
• New Delhi, Dominion of India
• Assassination by shooting
• Resting place Rajghat, New Delhi, India
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Education
• Gandhi traveled to London to learn law at University of London.
• He was very shy so he started taking dance lessons and violin to blend in.
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Civil rights movement in South Africa (1893–1914)
• Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa, where he developed his political views, his ethics, and his political leadership skills. The Indians in South Africa were led by wealthy Muslims, who employed Gandhi as a lawyer.
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Threatened
• In South Africa, Gandhi faced the discrimination directed at all coloured people. He was thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg after refusing to move from the first-class; he protested and was allowed on first class the next day.
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Unfair
• Traveling farther on by stagecoach, he was beaten by a driver for refusing to move to make room for a European passenger.
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Hardships
• He suffered other hardships on the journey as well, including being barred from several hotels.
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At Stake• As Gandhi still was in South
Africa there was going to be a small war in South Africa with Britain who owned lots of land counting India and South Africa.
• Since Gandhi thought they were unfair he decided to join colours up to be medics for Britain but it didn’t work.
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Hero
• After the black majority came to power in South Africa, Gandhi was proclaimed a national hero with numerous monuments.
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Proper Roles• Gandhi focused his
attention on Indians in South Africa, but historians have also examined his changing ideas on the proper role for blacks.
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Segregation
• White rule enforced strict segregation among all races and generated conflict between these communities.
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Indian Independence Movement
• After Gandhi left South Africa he went to India permanently. He joined the Indian National Congress and was introduced to Indian politics.
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Motivation• Later a young man named Martin
followed Gandhi and civil rights.
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Civil Rights Leaders• Gandhi influenced
important leaders and political movements. Leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States, including Martin Luther King and James Lawson, drew from the writings of Gandhi in the development of their own theories about non-violence.
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Mandela
• Anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, was inspired by Gandhi.
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Followers• Others include Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Steve Biko, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Benigno Aquino, Jr. (the Philippine opposition leader during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and father of current Philippine president Benigno Aquino III).
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Mahatma Gandhi
• "Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics."—Martin Luther King Jr, 1955.
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