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How Did Gandhi's Life Contribute To Civil Disobedience?

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Born on October 2nd, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi studied the law and spoke for the civil rights of the citizens of India both in India and South Africa to be freed from Great Britain. Gandhi became a leader of the Indians fight for independence, organizing boycotts against the British, in forms of civil disobedience. He was killed in 1948.

In 1885, Gandhi father died and shortly after that his young baby died. Gandhi was interested in becoming a doctor but his father wanted him to become a government minister so his family put him in the legal profession. When he was 18, he sailed for London, England in 1888 where he could study the law. Gandhi struggled with the transition to western culture and in his three year stay, committed to a meatless diet. …show more content…

Refusing to go to the back of the train, he was forcibly thrown off the train at a train station in Pietermaritzburg. That night he swore that he would root out the color prejudice.

In 1906, Gandhi organized his first first giant civil-disobedience campaign which he called Satyagraha” (truth and firmness), reacting to the government's new restrictions on the rights of Indians, including not recognizing Hindu marriages. Years and years of protests went by with the government imprisoning hundreds of Indians, including Gandhi.

In January, 1948, Gandhi who was weakened from repeated hunger strikes was going to a prayer meeting. When hindu extremist Nathuram Godse was upset at Gandhi because he tolerated to the muslims, knelt before Gandhi and shot him point blank three times with his semiautomatic pistol.

Even after his death, Gandhi’s actions inspired many human rights movement around the globe including Nelson Mandela in South Africa and Martin Luther King Jr. in

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