GANDHI'S INFLUENCE

While the two never met in person, King derived a great deal of inspiration from Mahatma Ghandi’s success in nonviolent protest, and so in 1959, made the journey to Bombay (now known as Mumbai). King and his entourage were greeted with a warm welcome: “Virtually every door was open to us”, King later recorded. He noted that Indian people “love to listen to the Negro spirituals”, and so his wife, Coretta, ended up singing to crowds as often as King lectured. The trip affected King deeply. In a radio broadcast made on his last night in India, he said: “Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice…

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