Gandhi Meets the US Civil Rights Movement (1936)
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How Did Gandhi's Nonviolence Become a Tool in the American South?
Nicole Hemmer and Kelly Carter Jackson: How much did the early civil rights movement talk about what was happening in the U.S., Jim Crow, in that language, in that colonialism? They ask if you see civil rights activists starting to think of the American South effectively for all intents and purposes as a colonial resistance. CNN's Shirdi Mehta says they are fascinated by how nonviolence can be used against oppression on a global level.
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