Make groups of four and find out the background information on Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. All three of them fought against all odds and used non-violence to achieve their aim. Choose any two of the above stated leaders and do a comparative study of their principles and lives.
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Nelson Mandela was born on 18th July 1918, in Mvezu, in the Eastern Cape. He is considered as the ‘father of South Africa’ by many. Nelson Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist who fought against the system of racial segregation or discrimination. Initially, he encouraged non-violence in the protests which did not work and more violent tactics had to be used. This earned the name ‘terrorists’ to Mandela and civil rights activists. He spent 27 years in jail and was released by F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s president in 1990. A civil war was prevented by Mandela and it was ensured that there would be no discrimination based on the colour of the skin.
Martin Luther King was born on 15th January 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. He led the first Negro nonviolent demonstration in the United States. The bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn lasted 382 days. Martin Luther King was arrested during these days of boycott, his house was bombed, went through personal abuse; however, nothing stopped him from emerging as a first-rank Negro leader. He was assassinated while leading a protest march for the city’s striking garbage workers.