Introduction
All movements were started by someone or by some people. People have always rebelled against their oppressors. It just matters how. There will always be leaders and followers and those followers can become leaders. For example on March 12, 1930 Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi led a peaceful protest against the British by walking across India to the sea while being attacked by armed British soldiers. Others perhaps maybe an admirer of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. started a civil rights movement in 1954 and he walked throughout the capital of Washington D.C declaring his beliefs for African American rights. Other people in the past have fought for freedom and independence fighting for what is right.
Questions:
What were the activists’ methods for independence in India?
Who were the essential activists in the Indian independence movement?
How did Gandhi inspire Martin Luther King Jr.’s methods in also advocating for independence?
Task
Your task is to produce sufficient answers that will be found with the links provided. Your responses should completely answer all parts of the questions. Answers should also be in complete sentences. You should be able to answer all of the questions by reading off of the links provided.
Key Questions:
1. How did Gandhi achieve Independence from England?
2. What was the outcome of the Civil Rights Movement?
3. How did Gandhi influence Martin Luther King Jr. to start the Civil rights Movement?
Process
This link is a page of information about how India and Pakistan won the war, who lead the movement, how they lead the movement and what outcome it has for India. You should use this link to answer either 1 or 2 of the key questions.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/india-and-pakistan-win-independence
This link leads you to a page that talks about the Indian Independence Movement specifically the person who led the movement and other people that tried to or helped bring independence to India. It gives you a short biography on all the people that sacrificed themselves for their country.
https://www.biographyonline.net/indian-independence-movement/
This link gives you a long and detailed biography about Mohandas Gandhi. It tells you facts about his early life and things that he did and achieved to later become the independence movement leader. It also gives you a video to watch that can help you find the information needed to answer the questions.
https://www.history.com/topics/mahatma-gandhi
This link gives you a top 10 list of people who even if they weren't in the Indian independence movement at that time what they did and their actions helped to make that march possible even if they had already passed what they had done would not be forgotten and this would help you learn what they did to achieve what they were fighting for.
https://topyaps.com/top-10-people-behind-indian-independence-movement
This link takes you to a website that gives you facts about the Independence leader Mohandas Gandhi and how his political career started and what he did to show his country that he was ready to fight back against the British. And he showed them how they could in a nonviolent way and in a right way to show that they weren't giving up.
http://factsanddetails.com/india/History/sub7_1e/entry-4129.html
This source talks about the relationship between India and Pakistan. The article also talks about the history between India and Pakistan and how they share a holiday known as the Indian Independence Day. And how the Partition divided British India into two countries, India and Pakistan. And the source goes as far to shed light on activists and fighting in India in the modern world.
This source shows the comparisons and contrasts between Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. The source talks about their life early on and both of their religions. And the effect of their religions on their political actions and beliefs. It also talks about how they both used nonviolent methods to meet their goals. And finally it talks about how they both died as a result of assassination.
https://prezi.com/jdyxbnrehdyk/gandhi-mlk-compare-contrast/
This is also a compare and contrast list between Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi, but it describes more differences between the two. One of them being that Gandhi had believed that his goals were to be reached through patience but King had believed that his goals had to be met through a degree of confrontation. And the second one described was that they both suffered in different ways, Gandhi had suffered physically because of the long periods of fasting and how King had suffered emotionally because he had seen his house get destroyed by an explosion.
This source also describes differences between Gandhi And Martin Luther King Jr. It talks about how Gandhi had sto battle against a single political party and had his whole nation with him, but how Martin Luther King Jr. had to unite large masses of people. It also talks about how Martin Luther King Jr. had to fight against racial bias and stereotypes to reach his goals and had to struggle significantly to get the public to support his views.
https://essay4you.net/blog/mohandas-gandhi-vs-martin-luther-king-jr/
This source talks about how Gandhi had won in the fight against British opression in India. The source talks about how the use of salt was a very symbolic weapon to fight with. Calling it "the greatest necessity of life" Gandhi saw how key it was to use because of its effect on people's daily live in India. With Biographer Geoffery Ashe saying that his use of salt was "the weirdest and most brilliant political challenge of modern times."
https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/gandhi-win/
Conclusion
After answering all the questions ask yourself with your new found knowledge of what happened in the Indian Independence Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. How has Gandhi and martin Luther King influenced you and what can you do to maintain peace in your everyday life. Answer is not needed on paper but for yourself to think about.
Credits
3 Main Sources:
Works Cited
"Differences and Similarities between Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr." Edublogs, mrborges.edublogs.org/2016/03/22/these-are-the-differences-and-similarities-between-martin-luther-king-jr-and-gandhi/. Accessed 26 Apr. 2018.
Engler, Mark. "How Did Gandhi Win?" Waging Nonviolence, edited by Paul Engler, 8 Oct. 2014, wagingnonviolence.org/feature/gandhi-win/. Accessed 26 Apr. 2018.
"Indian Independence Day." The Telegraph, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/15/indian-independence-day-everything-…. Accessed 26 Apr. 2018.