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How to Learn Nonviolent Resistance as King Did
How does one learn nonviolent resistance? The same way that Martin Luther King Jr. did by study, reading and interrogating seasoned tutors. King would eventually become the person most responsible for advancing and popularizing Gandhi s ideas in the United States, by persuading black Americans to adapt the strategies used against British imperialism in India to their own struggles. Yet he was not the first to bring this knowledge from the subcontinent.