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[https://ls.wisc.edu/news/the-enduring-power-of-nonviolent-protest by Isabella Ruder 18/12/23 University of Winsconsin-Madison] | [https://ls.wisc.edu/news/the-enduring-power-of-nonviolent-protest by Isabella Ruder 18/12/23 University of Winsconsin-Madison] | ||
In the 1930s, Mahatma Gandhi led the Indian people in a nonviolent act of civil disobedience, marching against taxes levied by the British salt monopoly. Gandhi and his followers trekked 240 miles over 24 days, gently shaking the world with their ultimately successful nonviolent protest. | In the 1930s, Mahatma Gandhi led the Indian people in a nonviolent act of civil disobedience, marching against taxes levied by the British salt monopoly. Gandhi and his followers trekked 240 miles over 24 days, gently shaking the world with their ultimately successful nonviolent protest. | ||
=====nonviolent resistance===== | |||
[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonviolent-resistance by Dictionary.com] | |||
African-Americans in the civil rights movement often practiced nonviolent resistance in the South in the 1960s — for example, by sitting-in at segregated lunch counters to provoke arrest and draw attention to their cause. (See segregation and sit-ins.) | |||
