He had studied Gandhi and realized that more can get done through nonviolence rather than violence.
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How did civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. develop a nonviolent strategy?
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The Indian leader who most publicly espoused non-violent protest was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was an instrumental influence on many activists in the 1960s and 1970s, including Dr. Martin Luther King.
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In 1959, Martin Luther King went to India to study the history of nonviolent resistance there.
Mahatma Gandhi greatly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. when it came to his methods of nonviolent resistance. Additionally, Dr. Benjamin Mays, a noted critic of segregation and racism, was his mentor.
He did not like violence.
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