Tag: civil rights

• Mahatma Gandhi in Sudan

  “In 1935, Mahatma Gandhi stopped over in Port Sudan (on his way to England through sea) and was welcomed by the Indian community there. In 1938, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stopped over in Port Sudan on his way to Britain and was hosted through a function at the home of Chhotalal Samji Virani. The Graduates General […]

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  July 12, 2020

  Ahimsa, Art, Black Athena, Free Africa, Gandhi, Gandhi 150th, imperialism, India, Jesus and the Disinherited, Nonviolence, Pan-Africanism, peace, Satyagraha, Sudan, Truth, Year of Gandhi

  beloved community, civil rights, civilization, freedom, Hinduism, imperialism, labor, Love, Pan Africa, PanAfricanism, Paul Robeson, peace, poverty, race, Satyagraha, socialism, the color line, War

• Letter to the students and faculty of Vanderbilt Divinity School about the expulsion of James Lawson, March 15, 1960

  March 15, 1960 To the Faculty and Students of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School: We, faculty members and students of the Yale University Divinity School Association, are deeply concerned with the events that have recently placed you in a position of difficult decision and decisive witness. We fully support you in your protests against the […]

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  September 3, 2019

  Year of Gandhi

  civil rights, James Lawson, Nonviolence, Satyagraha

• Martin Luther King, Farewell Statement for All India Radio, March 9, 1959 (Audio)

  

  Farewell Statement for All India Radio Listen to Audio here Leaders in and out of government, organizations—particularly the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi and the Quaker Centre—and many homes and families have done their utmost to make our short stay both pleasant and instructive. We have learned a lot. We are not rash enough to presume that […]

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  April 25, 2019

  Gandhi, India, Martin Luther King Jr.

  Christianity, civil rights, civilization, faith, freedom, God, Hinduism, Humanity, India, Love, poverty, Theology, Truth

• In Search Of Satyagraha: Richard Gregg, Gandhi, and King’s Pilgrimage to Nonviolence

  Dr. King imprisoned for his leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott, 1956 In the following letter to Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885-1974), a white American pacifist and social theorist, presents his thoughts on Gandhi had a significant influence on Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the American Civil Rights movement responds to an offer of […]

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  March 25, 2019

  Gandhi, Howard Thurman, India, Martin Luther King Jr., Pan-Africanism, politics, W.E.B Du Bois, Year of Gandhi

  black civilization, civil rights, civilization, freedom, history of science, intercivilizational unity, liberation, Montgomery bus boycott, Nonviolence, Richard Bartlett Gregg, Satyagraha, science, social sciences, Stride Towards Freedom, the color line, Western civilization

• The Moral Government of the World: On Faith, Reason, and Truth

  I. THE SOUL-FORCE IN HISTORY In his spiritual message to the world, notable because it is one of the rare extant speeches Mohandas K. Gandhi gave in English, the satygrahi remarked that There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen power […]

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  March 15, 2019

  African-American, Ahimsa, American Empire, Gandhi, Gandhi 150th, Howard Thurman, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolence, peace, philosophy, Satyagraha, Theology, Truth, W.E.B Du Bois, Western Christianity, Year of Gandhi

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• The Garland March: From Selma to Montgomery, 1965

  The flash and flutter of a lens can capture a moment in eternity. In the photograph below, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, second from right, wear garlands in the Hindu tradition. It is 1965 and they are marching from Selma to Montgomery. I am unsure which of […]

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  February 13, 2019

  African-American, Gandhi, Pan-Africanism

  Abraham Joshua Herschel, “Our God is Marching On”, beloved community, black Christianity, black civilization, civil rights, civilization, freedom, Hinduism, intercivilizational unity, Judaism, liberation, Martin Luther King Jr., Pan Africa, Pan Asia, peace, segregation, Selma, Selma march, talented tenth, the color line, The World and Africa, YearofDuBois