Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King

His legacy

Even after Gandhi’s assassination, his commitment to nonviolence and his belief in simple living

have given hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.

Gandhi’s actions inspired future human rights movements around the globe, including those of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States and Nelson Mandela in South Africa.

An Anti-War activist

He instituted novel methods of social struggle such as the hunger struggle. He rejected the armed struggle and preached the Ahimsa (non-violence) as a mean of resisting British rule.

Very important events:

-1906. Gandhi organized his first mass civil-disobedience campaign, which he called “Satyagraha” (“truth and firmness”), in reaction to the South African government’s new restrictions on the rights of Indians, including the refusal to recognize Hindu marriages.

-1919. Massacre of Amritsar. British troops fired machine guns into a crowd of unarmed demonstrators and killed nearly 400 people.

-1930. Salt March. Protest to British rule that prohibited Indians from collecting and selling salt, and imposed a heavy tax.

-1947, August 17. Independence of India.

Martin Luther King

Mahatma Gandhi

Nelson Mandela

¿who was he?

Nelson Mandela was born in Rolihlahla on July 18, 1918, in the tiny village of Mvezo. He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary,politician, and philndrophist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

He was the first black president.

Martin Luther King was born in Atalanta the 15 of January of 1929 and death in Memphis the 4th of April of 1968.

He Was an American pastor of the Baptist Church who developed a crucial work in the United States at the head of the civil rights movement for African Americans and who also participated as an activist in numerous protests against the Vietnam War and poverty in general.

-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India.

-He was a lawyer and politician.

-He lived in South Africa from 1893 and returned to India in 1915.

-Gandhi became a leader of India’s independence movement, organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience.

-He received the honorific name of Mahatma (Sanskrit and Hindi composition of mahā: 'great' and ātmā: 'soul').

-He was killed by an Hindu extremist in 1948.

A peacefull fighter

Nelson Mandela

His studies

He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943.

For this activity aimed at ending American segregation and racial discrimination through non-violent means, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Four years later, at a time when his work Had focused especially on opposition to war and the fight against poverty, was killed in Memphis as he prepared to attend an informal dinner of friends.

Martin Luther King, a civil rights activist from an early age, organized and carried out various peaceful activities demanding the right to vote, non-discrimination and other basic civil rights for black people in the United

The end of the apartheid

Nelson Mandela, a leader of the ANC, had been arrested in 1964 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Behind bars on Robben Island he became the symbol of the resistance to apartheid

The apartheid system began to fall apart in the 1980s. Two million unemployed blacks, a shrinking white minority, continued black resistance

In 1994 the first free multiracial elections were held.

The Peacefull Fighters

By: Bautista Damioli, Manuel Tierno, Santiago Tolosa and Santiago Koval