Thomas Kits van Heyningen

FDE Ghandi Question

On June 7th, 1893, M.K. Gandhi was forcibly removed from a

whites-only segregated train carriage for his refusal to comply with
the segregation laws that were being enforced. Gandhi was literally
thrown off the train for refusing to back down from his position of
peaceful protest of a policy he believed to be inherently wrong. This
was a turning point in Gandhis life, and marked the beginning of his
life as a force for social change through the means of civil
disobedience. Gandhi would go on to protest many other racially
unfair policies that plagued South Africa in the early 1900s, including
those that promoted the discrimination against Indians by mandating
where they could live or work. Always peaceful, Gandhi was a pioneer
of the civil disobedience tactic that would later be used in the worlds
civil rights movements to great effect. Rosa Parks famous refusal to
relocate to the back of the bus during the US Civil Rights movement is
a clear spiritual successor to this incident, and the movements leader
(Martin Luther King, Jr.) personified many of the philosophical traits
that Gandhi championed.