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CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATES, Mahatma Gandhi - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Outspoken critic of apartheid, known as the “voice” of voiceless black South Africans
      - Supported the economic boycott of South Africa during apartheid
      - Encouraged reconciliation between various factions associated with apartheid
      - Chairperson of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) after 1994
      - Advocated for “a democratic and just society without racial divisions,” including equal civil rights, a common system of education, and an end to forced deportation
- - - - Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956)
      - Black passengers were forced to give up their seats to white passengers on buses
      - After Rosa Parks was arrested, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a bus boycott
      - Black people stopped using the buses for over a year
      - Result:
      - King became known across the country
      - This event started later civil rights actions
      - The U.S. Supreme Court banned racial segregation on public buses
  - - - He was born in 1929
      - He died in 1968
      - He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
      - He was a civil rights leader who fought racism using peaceful protests
      - His first famous action was leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955
- - - - He studied law in London and later worked in South Africa.
        
        He developed the philosophy of nonviolent resistance (Satyagraha).