“To what extent did Mohandas
Gandhi’s belief in non-violent protest
shape India?”
• SS7H3:
– “The student will analyze continuity and change in
Southern and Eastern Asia leading to the 21st
Century.”
b. “Describe the impact of Mohandas Gandhi’s
belief in non-protest.”
King and Gandhi
“Nonviolence is the
answer to the crucial
political and moral
questions of our time…”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I object to violence
when it appears to do
good. The good is only
temporary; the evil it
does is permanent.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
Guiding Questions (King Quote)
“Nonviolence is the
answer to the crucial
political and moral
questions of our time…”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
• What do you remember
about Martin Luther King,
Jr. from 5th grade?
• How did Martin Luther
King, Jr. lead the civil
rights movement in the
U.S.?
• What do you believe
would have occurred if
King used more violent
methods to influence the
civil rights movement?
Guiding Questions (Gandhi Quote)
“I object to violence
when it appears to do
good. The good is only
temporary; the evil it
does is permanent.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
• What did Mohandas
Gandhi believe about
violence?
• What do Mohandas
Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr. have in common?
• How do you think that
Gandhi led the Indian
independence movement
against the British?
Gandhi Article
• Read the article, “A Man
Out of Time?”
• While you read,
complete your “Reading
Guide.”
Reading Guide
1) On your article, circle all of the proper nouns, dates, numbers, and locations.
2) What are 3 words that you do not understand?
_______________; What do you think it means? _________________________
_______________; What do you think it means? _________________________
_______________; What do you think it means? _________________________
3) What is your article about?
Who: __________________________________________________
What: __________________________________________________
Where: __________________________________________________
Why: __________________________________________________
When: _________________________________________________
4) Summarize your article using 4-6 sentences.
Excerpt
• “Martin Luther King, sometimes referred to as the 'black Gandhi', visited
India in 1959. He said: 'To other countries I may go as a tourist. But to
India I come as a pilgrim.' As a young man he had heard a lecture on
Gandhi and went out to buy half a dozen books on his life and works. He
said they taught him that the Christian injunction to non-violence, which
he had felt was valid only in conflicts between individuals, could be
applied to racial groups in conflict with nations. He interpreted Gandhi's
message as 'nonviolent resistance to evil'. When he went as a pastor to
Montgomery, Alabama and found himself spokesman for the civil rights
movement, he said he was driven back to the Sermon on the Mount and
Gandhian method. The year-long refusal, from 1955-56, to ride in buses
that practised discrimination in Montgomery, despite the hardship it
entailed to the black protestors who had to walk many miles to work, was
fully in the Gandhian spirit. King's remarks on being imprisoned were also
true to his mentor: 'I was proud of my crime. It was the crime of joining
my people in a non-violent protest against injustice.”
Adams, J. (2010). A Man Out of Time?. History Today, 60(4), 21-25.
Summary
• Get into cooperative groups of three.
• Share your summaries with your group
members and draw conclusions about the
impact of Gandhi’s belief in non-violent
protest.
• As you listen to the other summaries, identify
similarities and differences that are
discovered.
RAFT
• RAFT:
– Role:
• Mohandas Gandhi
– Audience:
• The Indian resistance
movement
– Format:
• Letter
– Topic:
• Why Indians should
employ non-violent
protest against the British