Between 11 March and 6 April 1930, Gandhi launched one of the most effective “non-violent” protests of the Indian Independence movement. “The Salt March” was a 400 kilometers [240 miles] from his commune in Ahmedabad to Dandi, on the coast of Gujarat. The march was done in response to the British tax on salt from India, and every day of the march Gandhi and his followers made their own salt from seawater and marched 10 miles. This protest shows how mentally and physically strong Gandhi was that he would walk for 24 days, 10 miles a day just to peaculy show the British government that he would not stand for their mistreatment. This kind of peaceful protest can be seen in many of the “African-American Civil Rights Movement” run by Martin Luther King Jr., and is shows how one can fight against injustice without machine guns or machetes but simply by walking.
Salt March
Between 11 March and 6 April 1930, Gandhi launched one of the most effective “non-violent” protests of the Indian Independence movement. “The Salt March” was a 400 kilometers [240 miles] from his commune in Ahmedabad to Dandi, on the coast of Gujarat. The march was done in response to the British tax on salt from India, and every day of the march Gandhi and his followers made their own salt from seawater and marched 10 miles. This protest shows how mentally and physically strong Gandhi was that he would walk for 24 days, 10 miles a day just to peaculy show the British government that he would not stand for their mistreatment. This kind of peaceful protest can be seen in many of the “African-American Civil Rights Movement” run by Martin Luther King Jr., and is shows how one can fight against injustice without machine guns or machetes but simply by walking.
