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He taught others how to protest in a peaceful and nonviolent way. This way, less people got hurt because there was no reason for police or soldiers to retaliate. He taught others that when they change their thoughts and beliefs, they change the world around them.

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Mahatma Gandhi was born Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869, in Porbandar, India.
Gandhi's mother was illiterate, but her devotion to her religion and her use of common sense had a lasting impact on Gandhi’s character. At school, Gandhi was a good student, but he was very shy and displayed no signs of leadership. Later in 1885, when his father passed away, Gandhi travelled to England to gain a degree in law.
While in England, Gandhi was asked to translate a copy of the Bahagavad Gita, which is a 700-verse Holy Book written in Sanskrit. Gandhi also discovered the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Gandhi was awed by the emphasis that Christ placed on empathy and forgiveness. Gandhi was also influenced by the Jain religion, because of it's focus on ahimsa, or nonviolence.

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On August the 15th, 1947, Gandhi's fight for Indian independence was won. He fasted for 21 days afterwards, which inspired the Indian and the British to stop fighting.

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The brand of salt.                                                                Gandhi announces resumption of satyagraha campaign.
 In March 1930 he embarked on a campaign against the salt tax and the regime that had raised it.

This campaign, one of the most successful in the history of India's non-violent independence, was brutally repressed by the British Empire, which retaliated by imprisoning more than 60,000 people.
 Several satyagrahis are also beaten by the authorities during their attempts at a non-violent raid of salt pans and salt deposits.

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The brand of salt.                                                                Gandhi announces resumption of satyagraha campaign.
 In March 1930 he embarked on a campaign against the salt tax and the regime that had raised it.

This campaign, one of the most successful in the history of India's non-violent independence, was brutally repressed by the British Empire, which retaliated by imprisoning more than 60,000 people.
 Several satyagrahis are also beaten by the authorities during their attempts at a non-violent raid of salt pans and salt deposits.

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The death.
On January 30, 1948, at Birla House, in New Delhi, while on his way to the garden for the usual ecumenical prayer at 17:00, accompanied by his two great-grandchildren Abha and Manu, Gandhi was assassinated with three pistol shots[39] by Nathuram Godse, a radical Hindu fanatic who also had ties to the Hindu extremist group Mahasabha.
In January 1949 the trial against him began which ended on November 8 of the same year with a death sentence.
The sentence was carried out a week later, despite opposition from Gandhi's supporters

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Gandhi during the march through the halls

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Gandhi during the march through the halls

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Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, United States on January 15, 1929, second son of Martin Luther King Senior (1899-1984), of Nigerian and Irish origins, reverend of the Baptist church, and of Alberta Williams (1904-1974), organist in the church choir[1]. His legal name at birth was Michael King like his father's. His father decided to change his name to Martin Luther King in 1934 during a trip to the Holy Land and Europe, which also took him to Nazi Germany's Berlin, where he was fascinated by the figure of the great German reformer Martin Luther.
Martin Luther King grew up in Atlanta on Auburn Avenue, the middle-class area of ​​the city, where he attended Younge Street Elementary School and David T.
He later attended the University of Atlanta's Experimental School before entering Booker T.
Washington High School.
At fourteen, as he recounts in his biography, returning from a bus trip to Dublin where he had taken an oratory competition, which he later won, he was forced together with others to give up his seat to white passengers who boarded along the way, standing for over 141 kilometres. As he himself would have stated, it was an indelible evening in his memory.
At the age of fifteen he managed to pass the entrance exam to the Atlanta Baptist College, a college for blacks in Atlanta later renamed Morehouse College, previously attended by his father and his grandfather - formally without having completed his previous studies - where he graduated in sociology in June 1948.
In 1946 he got a summer job with the Atlanta Railway Express Company, from which he resigned immediately after his (white) boss called him by the term "nigger"

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Undisputed promoter of the struggle for the emancipation of blacks in the United States, he embraced the fundamental dictates of Ghandian nonviolence and throughout his life waged battles for the conquest of human rights: from the public transport strike to Rosa Parks' civil disobedience, without forgetting the foundation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference thanks to which we can remember the historic march on Washington which culminated in August 1963 with the speech, "I have a dream", which moved the whole world.

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On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks for refusing to leave her seat, still one of those in the middle, made available to everyone, to seat a white man, was arrested and accused of violating segregation laws.
so warned Edgar Nixon who signed the guarantee.
There were negotiations at City Hall where King wanted to present three points for discussion, including a request to respect the order in which one rides public transportation, but was objected by attorney Jack Crenshaw that their proposal violated the city ordinance and nothing was accomplished.
On January 26, 1956, King was driving his own car and decided to gather some people with whom he shared the trip;

Taken to Montgomery Municipal Jail, his fingerprints were taken.
A crowd formed in front of the jail and eventually he was released, he signed the bond himself.
Upon returning, noting the many armed people gathered and the tension that reigned, the pastor made a speech with which calmed spirits and Coretta told her father, who had come to pick her up, that she could not leave her husband at this moment.
The news of the protest began to gain acclaim even outside Alabama, and the African-American movement received funds and moral support even from distant countries such as Japan and Switzerland.

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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized a first group of Freedom Riders that departed from Washington on May 4, 1961 by bus, but were attacked almost there in Anniston, State of Alabama.
Participants were admitted to a hospital.
On May 21, 1961, King gave a talk on this subject in his church while it was besieged by hoodlums, eleven members then arrived in Albany in December 1961.
In November 1961, an anti-segregationist movement was formed in Albany, Georgia, into which the nonviolent struggle movement of King and the SCLC also joined in December.
Anderson, leader of the movement, introducing himself in Albany.

The next day he was jailed during a mass arrest of demonstrators (700 arrests, the charges were that of disturbing the peace, obstructing traffic and having participated in an «unauthorized demonstration»: the same evening released but the judges later confirmed the charges.
Judge A.
The reverend decided for prison, so on July 23 when - called by Laurie Pritchett - he learned that the fine had been paid, he was reluctantly released from prison.
For the incidents that occurred on July 24, the day after July 25, King proclaimed a day of penance.
Though it fell short of its intended goal, the Albany campaign showed for the first time the support that a well-organized nonviolent effort could provide for the struggle of the national civil rights movement.

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After the march ended in the death of Larry Paine, King returned to the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry Street, owned by Walter Bailey.
Having to dine at the home of the Reverend Samuel B.
Kyles, at 17:30 arrived at the motel, asking the pastor to follow him.
At 18:01 King stepped out onto the second floor balcony of the motel, where he was shot in the head by a sniper rifle;
A 30-06 caliber bullet was used.
Transported to St. Joseph's hospital, the doctors ascertained irreparable brain damage;
his death was announced at 7:05 pm on April 4, 1968.

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He was born on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata, then part of the Cape Province of South Africa. His father, Gadla, was a local chief and adviser to the monarch; he was appointed to the position in 1915, after his predecessor was accused of corruption by a white magistrate. In 1940, at the age of twenty-two, he and his cousin Justice were forced to marry a girl chosen by the chief of the Thembu Dalindyebo tribe. This imposition of arranged marriage was a condition that neither Mandela nor his cousin wanted to tolerate. So he decided to escape with his cousin, in the direction of the city of Johannesburg.
He began law studies at the University College of Fort Hare. Mandela was involved in opposing the minority South African regime, which denied political, social and civil rights to the black South African majority, which cost him his expulsion from the academic institution. Joining the African National Congress in 1942, he founded the Youth League two years later, together with Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo. He continued his education at the University of South Africa and was able to graduate from Fort Hare in 1943. Mandela marched in August 1943 in support of a successful bus boycott to reverse fare hikes. In 1944 he married Evelyn Mase, from whom he divorced in 1958. Also in 1944 he joined the Central Committee of the ANC youth league.

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After the 1948 electoral victory of the National Party, author of a pro-apartheid policy of racial segregation, he took Zuma's place in the national executive of the ANC in March 1950, and that same year he was elected national president of the Youth League of the ANC.
Mandela distinguished himself in the 1952 resistance campaign, organized by the ANC, and played an important role in the 1955 popular assembly, whose adoption of the Freedom Charter established the fundamental agenda of the anti-apartheid cause. During this period Mandela and his fellow attorney Oliver Tambo founded the Mandela and Tambo Law Office providing free or low cost assistance to many blacks who would otherwise be left without legal representation.

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Nelson Mandela after his release from prison ran against De Klerk for the new office of president of South Africa and on April 27, 1994 he won the first democratic elections, becoming the first black head of state. De Klerk was appointed vice president. As president (May 1994–June 1999), Mandela presided over the transition from the old apartheid-based regime to democracy, earning worldwide respect for his support for national and international reconciliation. This transition was brought about through Mandela's own establishment of a special tribunal, the so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Mandela played a particular role in inspiring and advising the representatives of Irish Sinn Féin, engaged in peace negotiations with the British government.

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On March 28, 2013 he was hospitalized in a Pretoria hospital for a serious lung infection, connected to a tuberculosis suffered during the period of imprisonment; he was discharged after a few days, on April 6, 2013. Two months later, on June 8, 2013, he was hospitalized again in worrying but stable conditions.
On the night of 24 June 2013, Mandela's conditions worsened considerably, again in relation to the serious lung infection connected to the old tuberculosis. On the morning of June 27, the family was urgently summoned to the Pretoria hospital. The eldest daughter, Makaziwe, spoke on SABC public radio, declaring: "I don't want to lie. My father is in a very critical state. It can happen at any moment - Madiba's eldest daughter announced -. Dad is still among us, he responds to touch. God knows when the time will come. We wait with him, with Dad, who is still with us, opening our eyes and reacting when touched." On 4 July 2013 he was declared in a permanent vegetative state, but the news was later denied. Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013 at his home in Johannesburg at the age of 95; the announcement was first made by the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, on live television. Five days later, a public commemoration was held in Johannesburg which was attended by major world leaders along with thousands of South Africans. Only a small group of 450 people attended the burial made up of family members, some friends, leaders and former heads of state, senior representatives of the African National Congress

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Mahatma Gandhi was born Mohandas K.
In school, Gandhi was a good student, but he was very shy and showed no signs of leadership.
Gandhi was also influenced by the Jain religion, due to its focus on ahimsa, or nonviolence.
He taught others how to protest peacefully and nonviolently.
In March 1930 he undertook a campaign against the salt tax and the regime that had raised it.
in 1948 Gandhi was assassinated by a fanatical Hindu radical.
In January 1949 the trial against him began which ended on November 8 of the same year with the death sentence.

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Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929.
His father decided to change his name to Martin Luther King in 1934 during a trip to the Holy Land and Europe, which also took him to Nazi Germany's Berlin, where he was fascinated by the figure of the great German reformer Martin Luther.
He graduated in sociology in 1948.
Undisputed promoter of the struggle for the emancipation of blacks in the United States, he embraced the fundamental dictates of Gandhian nonviolence and throughout his life he led battles for the conquest of human rights: one of these was the March on Washington in 1963 where he delivered the famous speech "I have a dream" that shook the world.
After being the victim of a bombing that claimed the life of Larry Paine, King returned to the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry Street, owned by Walter Bailey.
At 6:01 pm King stepped out onto the second floor balcony of the motel, where he was shot in the head by a sniper rifle.
his death was announced at 7:05 pm on April 4, 1968.

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Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo in South Africa.
His father, Gadla, was a local chief and adviser to the monarch;
he was appointed to the position in 1915, after his predecessor was accused of corruption by a white magistrate.
In 1940, at the age of twenty-two, he and his cousin Justice were forced to marry a girl of the tribe's chief's choosing.
He began law studies at the University College of Fort Hare.
In 1944 he married Evelyn Mase, whom he divorced in 1958.
Also in 1944 he joined the Central Committee of the ANC youth league.
During this period Mandela and fellow attorney Oliver Tambo founded the Mandela and Tambo Law Office providing free or low cost assistance to many blacks who would otherwise be left without legal representation.
he was discharged after a few days, on April 6, 2013.
On the night of June 24, 2013, Mandela's conditions worsened considerably, again in relation to the serious lung infection connected to the old tuberculosis.
The eldest daughter, Makaziwe, sent a radio message saying her father was in danger but luckily he was still alive.
He was later pronounced dead on December 5, 2013