Resources: Gandhi, King, and the Global Struggle for Freedom and Justice

This page offers a collection of material that pertains to Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, the philosophy of nonviolence, and the global struggle for freedom and justice.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Struggle (video, ca. 7min)

• Chapter 13: Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,
  In: Clayborne Carson (ed), The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 2001. 

• Major King Events Chronology: 1929–1968 (timeline of the most important events in Martin Luther King’s Life)

King Encyclopedia Entries

• Howard Thurman
• King’s India Trip
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Nonviolence
• Gandhi Society for Human Rights

Primary Sources: Historical Material and Documents

• Palm Sunday Sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi, Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Montgomery, Alabama,  March 22, 1959, 
• “My Trip to the Land of Gandhi,” Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, IL, July 1, 1959 to July 31, 1959.
• Farewell Statement to All India Radio. Martin Luther King, Jr., New Delhi, India, March 9, 1959. 
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• United Nation Resolution 53/243. Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace

The Gandhi-King Global Initiative Conference:

The Uplift of All: Gandhi, King, and the Global Struggle for Freedom and Justice